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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 342

An illustration from The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions, 1891, leaf 342 — THE MANOR HOUSE CALLED WHITEHALL. In front of the mansion, stretching down to the Horse Fair, was in past years a grasslawn, called in mediaeval Latin the Gaia, or Gay, a name given to small parks orornamental enclosures. This remained with some fine chesnut trees till 1835. It still retainsthe…

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