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the neighbourhood, although the fury of the 

 storm appears to have been more severely felt 

 in the parish of Walburton. Here a fine 

 conservatory, belonging to Richard Prince, 

 Esq. vras totally demolished. A barn, the 

 property of G. Halstead, Esq. and a machine 

 house were in one minute levelled with the 

 ground; as also a group of seven large elm 

 trees, an ash pollard with a large limb driven 

 from the trunk, and a great portion of the same 

 was, in sight of several spectators, taken into 

 the air and carried entirely over a field of ten 

 acres. A barn, at Binstead, a mile distant, 

 in the exact direction of the wind from the 

 above scene, was completely cut asunder, the 

 doors and centre roof being shattered, and the 

 two ends remaining entire. A barn of Mr. J. 

 Coote, of Middleton, was blown down ; five 

 wheat ricks had their tops blown off, and a 

 great portion of their sheaves scattered to 

 atoms." — Sun Newspaper, October 16th, 1832. 



The elm tree planted by Pope, in the 

 Court Yard of Burlington Gardens, upwards 



