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Buckingham, Duke of Avington Park Easton |
previous ... I came through the Duke's Park to come to Easton, which is the next village below Avington. |
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Avington Park Itchen, River water meadow woods garden walled garden Easton |
A very pretty park. The house is quite in the bottom; it can be
seen in no direction from a distance greater than that of four
or five hundred yards. The river Itchen which rises near
Alresford, which runs down through Winchester to Southampton,
goes down the middle of this valley, and waters all its immense
quantity of meadows. The Duke's house stands not far from the
river itself. A stream of water is brought from the river to
feed a pond before the house. There are several avenues of trees
which are very beautiful, and some of which give complete shelter
to the kitchen garden, which has, besides, extraordinarily high
walls. ... The village of Easton is, like that of Avington, close
by the water-side. The meadows are the attraction; and, indeed,
it is the meadows that have caused the villages to exist. next |
 
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