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trees, while in front of the house, raised about two feet from the general level, was a broad paved terrace. 
On the left-hand side was the kitchen garden and duck-pond, and the right the stable court. The 
parterre and flower garden were situated on the other side of the house, partly in the park across 
which the main lines of the garden were extended by avenues. 
DAWLEY, MIDDLESEX. 
PLATE 67. 
RACTICALLY nothing now remains of this once celebrated garden, which was 
situated near Hillingdon, not far from the borders of Middlesex and Bucking¬ 
hamshire. The house was an extensive classic building, and was approached 
through a large grass forecourt on the north side. On the south side were very 
extensive flower gardens and parterres, those near the house being grass. The 
middle parts consisted of six parterres, and beyond was a flower garden with central 
grass walks and four little treillage arbours. East of this was another enclosed 
garden, laid out with ten small parterres, and having an extensive orangery at one end, in front of 
which a space was reserved for the orange trees, placed out of doors during the summer months. On 
the opposite side of the garden was the bowling-green and a small orchard. An elevated terrace ran 
the entire width of the garden from east to west, and was terminated at either end by a square gazeebo. 
A house still exists on the site, known as Dawley Court, but the gardens, shown on this old view 
by Kip, have long ceased to exist. 
FAIRFORD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
PLATE 68. 
HE original Manor-house at Fairford was purchased in 1498 by John Tame, a 
wealthy London merchant, who had introduced the manufacture of woollen cloth 
into the town. The property was successively held by his son and grandson, but at 
the Restoration belonged to one Andrew Barker. The view on Plate 68 is from an 
engraving in Atkyns’ “Gloucestershire,” and the house shown here was built by 
Samuel Barker, who was high sheriff of the county in 1691. The gardens were 
afterwards demolished, as we may gather from an account published a century 
later, which states that “ the Park was about 200 acres in extent, well planted, with an avenue a 
mile in length, and the grounds were long and deservedly admired, when in that style of embellishment 
which distinguished the close of the last century. From the modern art of gardening they have gained 
additional beauty! the river widened for a great distance with its extremities artificially concealed.” 
Nothing now remains of this fine old garden. 
A double avenue gave access to the house from the town of Fairford, and both house and gardens 
occupied an oblong space enclosed within walls. At the end of the avenue was a single forecourt leading 
directly to the house, on the left-hand side of which were the stable and laundry yards, with outbuildings. 
