Book I. 



GARDENS OF YORKSHIRE. 



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lJp<o» Ha/?, —near Northampton; T. S. W. Samwell, Eeq. I Wak(;iield Lodge, — neat Towce«ter; Duke of 0*aflon. 

 A large irregular building, on a gravelly soil, displaying fine | Delightfully situated on a gentle eminence, which slopes to a 

 views of the distant scenery. I large lake, formed by Brown. 



7581. YORKSHIRK A central, and, in part, marine county, of 3,698,380 acres ; the surface varied, 

 containing several mountains, extensive moors, and some royal forests ; the subsoil most generally rocky 

 or stony ; no public garden or park ; a subscription botanic garden at Hull, and nurseries and market- 

 gardens at all the large towns. It abounds in residences, especially in the West Riding, where nearly 

 400 are mentioned in The Beauties of England and Wales, as worthy of notice. The farmers' gardens 

 are kept in a good state in the better parts of the county; and at Leeds there are some neat cottage- 

 gardens. At Slierborne, in the West Riding, the wine-sour plum, one of the best baking sorts, abounds 

 and thrives on limestone soils, and the fruit is sent to Hull, York, London, and other markets. There is 

 a horticultural society held at Leeds, the chief promoter of which is J. Carr, of St. Anne's ; and the same 

 gentleman is active in his endeavors to set on foot a botanic garden. Chapel Allerton, near this town, 

 noted when in the possession of R. A. Salisbury, is now a public nursery. 



r/ie H«W Botoii'e Gari/cn — was established in 1812, by- sub- 

 scription. It occupies five acres, and is arranged on the same 

 general plan as that of Liverpool, having been laid out 

 chiefly by Shepherd, the curator of that garden. The principal 

 walks which surround and intersect the garden are eight or 

 nine feet broad, and form a total length of nearly three quar- 

 ters of a mile ; particular compartments are set apart for bog, 

 alpine, and green-house plants ; a pond thirty yards in length, 

 for the growth of aquatics, and at the south-west corner ot the 

 garden a mount twelve feet high, admitting, though itself 

 surrounded by trees, an extensive view of the Humber, the 

 I/in'Oolnshire coast, and the Wolds. The country round Hull 

 being almost without trees, the shady walks of this garden form 

 an agreeable resource as a promenade for the families of the 

 subscribers. The curator is Mr. William Donn, nephew to the 

 late curator of the Cambridge Garden. 



Nurseries. — There are a number in this coimty, and some 

 are of great extent. The oldest establishments are at York 

 andPomfret; the first carried on by J. Backhouse. Pontey 

 has a considerable nursery at Huddersfield, and there are others 

 of greater extent at Cottingham, near Hull, and at Doncaster. 

 The seed of the York cabbage is supplied by Rigg and Son of 

 York. 



7582. Mamion and demesne residences. 



Aldrvark Hall — near Rotheram ; Geo. Foljambe, Esq. 

 Charmingly situated on an eminence rising from the Don, and 

 skirted with w ood down to the river, 



Allerton Manleverer, — near linaresborough ; Lord Stourton. 

 An elegant mansion, in a park of 400 acres of very rich land, 

 and charmingly picturesque. It contains a fine octagonal 

 tower, from which are obtained extensive views. 



BtV</s«/, — near Mai ton; Lord Middleton. A spacious and 

 commodious mansion and pleasure-grounds, well planted and 

 arranged. 



Bradford, — at Bradford ; Hustler, Esq. An ingenious 



horticultural amateur, who has a good garden and collection 

 of hardy herbaceous plants. 



X Bramham Park — meox Tadcaster; Geo. Fo.x, Esq. A 

 stately mansion ; the grounds laid out in the last century, in 

 the ancient style, attbrd a good specimen of geometrical 

 gardening. 



B)oe/cete/n/ /fa47, Lincolnshire, — near Barton; Lord Yarbo- 

 rough. The park extensive, and diversified with plantations and 



rising giounds, containing a fine Gothic chapel and mausoleum, 

 by Wyatt Considerable improvements taking place in the 

 kitchen -garden by substituting espaliers for standard fruit-trees. 



vhich liad rendered the garden like a closely planted orchard. 



BUham House, — neir Doncaster; W. Hewitt, Esq. The 

 grounds contain a Belvedere {Be/, Italian, fine, beautiful ; and 

 redere, to see,) which commands the most extensive and richest 

 prospect in Yorksliire. 

 Burton Constable,— mezx Hedon ; Sir Clifford Constable, Bart. 



A park spacious though flat, abounding in trees, with extensive 

 ■walks, a large piece of water, and elegant bridge. 



Cave CasUe, — near Southcave ; H. G. Barnard, Esq. A 



small but extremely pleasant park, with very large gardens and 

 pleasure-grounds. 



Copjrrove, — near Knaresborough ; Thos. Duncombe, Esq. An 

 elegant mansion on a rising ground, with a plezLsing prospect 

 of the lawn, and a fine sheet of water, bounded with wood, 

 winding out of sight beyond a distant hill. 



Cusrvorth Hall, — near Doncaster ; W. Wrightson, Esq. An 

 elegant mansion, in one of the finest situations In the kingdom. 

 The grounds are every thing that could be desired in a moderate 

 space; the prospects extensive in all directions over a delight- 

 ful coimtry embellished with gentlemen's seats, churches, and 

 other enlivening objects. 



Denton jParA:, — near Otley ; Sir H. C. Ibbetson. A noble 

 structure, commanding fine views of the Vale of Wharf. 



Bveringh/im, — neax Market Wrighton; M. Constable, Esq. 

 A large and lofty brick mansion in a flat country ; the park 

 with a successful imitation of a river. 



Eshton Hall, -near ija.rgta.ve; M. Wilson, Esq. A cottage 

 with a conical mountain in front wooded to the top, and 

 gardens liberally provided for, and conducted by J. Douglass, a 

 skilful gardener. There is a good collection of bog plants for 

 which the cold, moist climate of this place is well adapted. 



Finningley Park Co/ta^'e, — near Bawtrey ; Harvey, Esq. 



A curious and elegant shooting cottage, surrounded with ever^ 

 sporting convenience- 



X Par7tley Hull, — near Otley ; W. Fawkes, Esq. An elegant 

 mansion, high on the side of an immense bank, commanding 

 extensive views of the bank opposite, across the Vale of \Vharf 

 The kitchen-garden and farm well attended to. 



Grimstone GartA (Grimstone Hill), — near Heydon ; Charles 

 Grimston, Esq. A superb baronial mansion, on an elevated 

 site in a hilly park. 



X tiackfall (Hag-fall, i.e. Witch's fall or valley),- near 

 Kipon; Miss Laurence. A singularly romantic scene, com- 

 posed of a steep rocky declivity, descending to a woody glen ; 

 the walks along the declivity, showing finely varied views, a 

 cascade, and, at an elevated point, Mowbray, a prospect wliich, 

 Gilpjn says, nature has worked with her broadest pencil. 



X Hackness, — near Scarborough ; Sir J. V. B- .Johnstone, 

 Bart. Remarkable for the gardens and pleasure-grounds, exe- 

 cuted in a superior stylo of elega'ice, in a vale, with a terrace- 

 walk commanding extensive views, and a gTe«^n-!)ou;;e richly 

 Stocked with exotic plants. 



Horvsham Hall, — near Kirkham; Geo. Cholniley, Esq. A 

 large and elegant mansion, on a swell rising from a beautiful 

 valley; the pleasure-grounds finely embellished with plant- 

 ations, but the views rather confined. 



/ro/7«<?, — near Howden ; Hon. W.' Stourton. A seat on a 

 moor, susceptible of great improvement, arid of possessing, at 

 no great expense, a range of pleasure-grounds, which, m rnag- 

 nificence and picturesque beauty, not many places in England 

 could excel. 



Ki'rWeaWiam HaH, — near Guisborough ; H. Vansittart, Esq. 

 An excellent mansion by Carr ; the gardens extensive, and laid 

 out with much taste ; ihey contain an octagonal temple, and 

 with the house, the whole has an air of princely grandeur. 



Ledston Lodge, — wear Abberford; Chr. Wilson, Esq. A 

 handsome mansion, in a fine open country, witlr agreeable 

 pleasure-grounds. 



Mellmrn, — near Pocklington ; Sir H. Vavasour. A hand- 

 some brick mansion, in a flat country, finely ornamented with 

 plantations. 



Melfon-on-the-hill,— near Doncaster; R. F. Wilson, Esq. A 

 good house and fine grounds, with those extensive prospects so 

 general in this part of the country. 



^ X Mulgrave Castle, — near Whitby ; Earl Mulgrave. A 

 Gothic house in a commanding situation on the sea-coast ; the 

 approach roads much admired, and the verdant and marine 

 views both very extensive. 



Nervby HaU, — near Ripon; Lord Grantham. A brick man- 

 sion, supposed by SirC. Wren, in 1705: the pleasure-groimds 

 laid out with most correct taste. 



Orvstwi, — near Doncaster; Phil. Cooke, Esq. An elegant 

 structure on a rising ground in the centre of a rich and fertile 

 country ; the estate enlarged and a good arrondissemeni formed 

 by the exertions and purchases of the present proprietor. 



X Plumpton, — near Knaresborough; Lord Harewood. Re- 

 markable for its pleasure-grounds, which are studded with 

 detached rocks resembling large coal-cinders; it contains also a 

 lake abounding in sinuosities. The whole scene of twenty acres 

 is supposed to have been formed out of an old quarry ; like the 

 beautiful garden, mentioned by Biydone (Travds'm isidlij), near 

 Syracuse. 



Ribstone Hall, — near Knaresborough; Sir H. Goodrick. A 

 house on an eminence, the grounds remarkable for containing 

 the original tree of the Ribstone pippin. 



Ripley, — near Knaresborough ; Sir W. Ingilby, Bart. The 

 house, built in 1550, is a capacious castellated mansion with 

 a park of old oaks, and a kitchen-garden, remarkable for its 

 complete arrangement of hot -houses, and its collections of 

 culinary and floricultural exotics. 



Saiulheck (Beck, i. e. stream), — near Tickhill; Earl of Scar- 

 borough. A magnificent Grecian mansion in a valley, sur- 

 rounded by high grounds and plantations, containing a fine 

 piece of water and many miles of gravel-walks. 



Sledmere, — near Bridlington; Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. A 

 mansion from the proprietor's own designs, executed in a su- 

 perior degi-ee of elegance; the pavilions, hot-houses, green- 

 houses, and other ornamental appendages, all in the most ele- 

 gant and appropriate style. 



Streethorpe, — near Doncaster ; G. C. Yarborough, Esq. A 

 handsome modem mansion, and the plantations and pleasure- 

 grounds laid out with great judgment and taste. 



Skelton Castle — near Gainsborough; J. Wharton, Esq. An 

 extensive fronted mansion, on the banks of a stream which 

 has been expanded into a lake, and appropriate planting and 

 other alterations made in the grounds. 



X Spofjbrth, — near Wetherby ; Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, 

 an emment botanist and horticultural amateur. The gardens 

 are rich in curious bulbs and other rare plants. 



Sprotbrough Hall, — near Doncaster; Sir Joseph Copley. A 

 rnansion of Charles the Second's time, commanding delightful 

 views of verdant scenery. 



«oc/i-eW ParA-,- near Wetherby; W. Middleton, Esq. In 

 the grounds is a lake, and on its margin near the house, a 

 rock of a very singular shape, sixty-five feet in circumference 

 and thirty feet high. It is supposed to have given rise to the 

 name of the seat, as Stockheldt, in Germany, signifies the base 

 or pedestal of an image or statue. 



X Sludley Royal,- near Ripon; Miss Law ence. The 

 pleasure-grounds used to be reckoned the finest in England. 

 They occupy a valley furnished with a brook swelled into ponds, 

 and forming vaiious cascades, terminating in the fine ruin of 

 Fountains Abbey. They abound in seats and buildings, and 

 contain 300 acres, and the park 700 acres. 



Thirkleby Park, -near Thirkleby ; Sir T. Frankland. A 

 good house, by Wyatt, and the .grounds and gardens re- 

 modelled, partly from the proprietor's own ideas, and nartlv 

 from those of the late Mr. ]\Ieikle. They contain some fine old 

 common pine-trees (P. sylv.) and a good kitchen-garden. 



Wenirrorth Cadle,- near Bamsley ; H. Vernon, Esq. An 

 extensive fabric, on a considerable eminence, surrounded by an 

 extensive park, containing a piece of water, half-way down 

 the slope, forming, from the house and grounds above, a zone 

 of light which to a stranger has a strange and unnatural eflTect. 

 A ear tne house the grounds indicate the remains of the 

 geometric style, and contain some fine cedars and other exotics, 

 and a flower-garden of embroiderv. 



Wheatley Hall,-near Doncaster ; Sir Will. Cooke, Bart. On 

 tlie banks of the Don, in a low but beautiful situation, jmd 

 decorated with some of the finest oaks in the country. 



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