this point avenues diverged in three directions. There was another flower garden on one side of the great 
courtyard, laid out with oblong beds and grass paths between. A central walk through the garden 
traversed a kitchen garden, with little square ponds at intervals between the beds, and beyond was 
a square fountain garden. On the opposite side of the avenue were the stables, kitchen offices, and 
orchard, with two circular dovecotes. The garden did not exist for many years, as it was unfortunately 
one of those which fell under the destroying hand of the landscape gardener in the middle of the 
eighteenth century. 
LITTLE COMPTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
PLATE 63. 
ITTLE COMPTON was situated near the village of Compton Abdale in Gloucester¬ 
shire. The manor was purchased in 1608 by Sir Richard Grubham, who bequeathed 
it to his nephew Sir John Howe, who in his turn was succeeded by his son Sir 
Richard Howe, and it was whilst in his possession that the engraving was made 
from which this view is taken. According to Atkyns (1768) it was a large newly- 
built house having delightful gardens and a pleasant river running through them, with 
an agreeable prospect over large woods, and a park of great extent. Hardly any traces 
of the mansion now remain, and its site is occupied by a farmhouse. The house, a classic building 
with a central block and side wings, was approached through the forecourt by a circular drive. The 
visitor alighted some little distance from the front door and crossed a flagged court. On the left of 
the forecourt were the stable buildings, and on the right a long narrow canal, running through the 
garden. On one side of the house was a stone flagged terrace bordering a canal over which a little 
bridge led into the principal part of the garden. This was laid out in grass, with a circular fountain 
pond at one end, from which a little cupid gaily spouted water. On either side were oblong plots raised 
some few feet above the general level, the soil excavated from the canal being used for the purpose. 
One of these plots was used as a bowling-green, and the other laid out as a parterre, while all were 
enclosed within a high boundary wall. The kitchen gardens, which were of considerable extent, 
occupied the ground on the opposite side of the house; they were divided into plots by hedges, with 
grass alleys between, and innumerable little formal trees dotted about. 
KING’S WESTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
PLATE 64. 
F this quaint old garden there are now hardly any remains, for the old Tudor Manor 
house, which is shown on the plate, was pulled down in the early years of the 
eighteenth century to make way for the present building, a stately classic pile, 
erected in 1711 from the designs of Vanbrugh. The view on Plate 64, taken from 
Atkyns “ Gloucestershire,” shows the house when it was the seat of Edward 
Southwell, Esq., one of the clerks of the Privy Council, and principal Secretary 
of State for Ireland. Atkyns says, “ He hath a pleasant seat with delightful 
gardens, and a full prospect over King-road the harbour of the city of Bristol and over the 
