A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 189
nclose a large area or quadrangle, with gateway tower, a vasthall, saloon, and many very elegant apartments. The grounds are extensive and well wooded; they command many very fineviews, receiving additional beauty from the river Ogwen, which here forms severalcascades, seen through the vistas in… … WYTHAM ABBEY, NEAR OXFORD, OXFORDSHIRE.—EARL OF ABINGDON. Wytham, or Witliam Abbey, for so tiio name is differently or indifferently spelt, issituated about three miles from the city of Oxford, on a rising ground above thebank of the river Isis. Here was in ancient times a nunnery, removed from its…
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