Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 95
s and legendary history ofthe ancient place. The first recorded possessor v/as oneWilli.im Peveril, a reputed kinsman of the Conquerors, thelast of whose family possessing Haddon fled abroad on suspicionof having poisoned Kanulph, Earl of Chester. It is conjecturedthat some of the foundations of… … THE DESCENT FROM THE GREAT TERRACE. is the private dining-room, and the beautiful drawing-room is above, and from the u-indows are delightful viewsdown the course of the Wye. The kitchen, on the other sideof the lobby, is approached by a sloping passage, and has avast fireplace and ancient culinary…
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