Abbotstone house

Abbotstone house, Itchen Stoke and Ovington
house
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Itchen Stoke and Ovington
Hampshire

refce: hearsay

description
The place is described in text Cox 1738 (perhaps)
- house - Hampshire
refce: Cox 1738
... at Abbotston, the Seat of the present Duke of Bolton, erected by his Father, the first Duke of Bolton.

descriptive text

Period - 18th century, early
refce: Defoe 1724
Near this town [Alresford], a little north-west, the Duke of Bolton has another seat, which, tho' not large, is a very handsome beautiful palace, and the gardens not only very exact, but very finely situate, the prospect and visto's noble and great, and the whole very well kept.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001