Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc. — John Shaqi
Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.Mogg, Edward S.
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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.
Mogg, Edward S.
England -- Maps; Great Britain -- Maps; Roads -- Great Britain
=Goodwood=, 36, 40, 216, the seat of the Duke of Richmond. The mansion
is advantageously situated in a spacious park, commanding extensive and
delightful prospects. After a variety of alterations and additions to
the present time, this mansion has arrived at a degree of elegance and
splendour truly worthy its present noble possessor. The principal front,
and the west wing, are new. The former, which faces the south, is only
one story high, with a circular tower of two stories, crowned with a low
dome at each end. The centre is embellished with a portico of six Ionic
columns of Portland stone, which support another of the same number of
Doric pillars, surmounted by a ballustrade. Each of the wings, forming
obtuse angles with the front, has also a circular tower at its
extremity. The apartments are spacious and elegant.
The stables and offices, situated westward of the house, are a handsome
quadrangular building, inferior to few in the kingdom. The kennel for
the hounds exceeds in magnificence, and conveniences of every kind, any
structure, perhaps, ever raised before for a similar purpose. The
gardens are extensive, and tastefully laid out. Here is also a
magnificent tennis-court. The park contains 2000 acres, in which, on a
rising ground, is erected a beautiful pleasure-house, called Cairney
Seat: from this building the most magnificent views present themselves.
Adjoining the park, on a hill, is a race course, where races are held
two or three days, in the latter end of April, or beginning of May.
The lion, carved in wood, which ornamented the head of Commodore Anson’s
ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, is placed on a pedestal,
near the Duke of Richmond Inn.
Goring, C. Esq. 66. (_see Highden_)
Grainger, ---- Esq. 49. (_see Bridge House_)
Grant, ---- Esq. 213. (_see Park Place_)
Grant, J. Esq. 80. (_see Windmill Hill_)
Graves, Lord, 123. (_see Thanks_)
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