Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . Tinstay; or, rest satisfied with the good things Providencehas so liberally bestowed on you : Cui domus est victusque decens, eui patria dulcis, Sunt satis haec vitae, caetera cura, labor. Struxit Johannes Wynn miles et Baronettus.—Anno I WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 89 In the surrounding grounds, enriched with plantations, appears anoble obelisk, raised to the memory of the present Sir Watkinsfather. The height is one hundred and one feet, at the base six-teen, the summit nine, and it is built with freestone and gallery runs round
Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . Tinstay; or, rest satisfied with the good things Providencehas so liberally bestowed on you : Cui domus est victusque decens, eui patria dulcis, Sunt satis haec vitae, caetera cura, labor. Struxit Johannes Wynn miles et Baronettus.—Anno I WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 89 In the surrounding grounds, enriched with plantations, appears anoble obelisk, raised to the memory of the present Sir Watkinsfather. The height is one hundred and one feet, at the base six-teen, the summit nine, and it is built with freestone and gallery runs round the top, with a bronze urn, elegantly designed,in the centre. Round the base are wreaths of oak in the beaks offour eagles, also cast in bronze. The famous Offas Dyke runsthrough the park, and near it, midst the fine romantic dingle ofNant y Bele, winds the river Dee. Chirk Castle, on the line of OfFas Dyke, about three miles fromWynnstay, is of ancient date. It is supposed to have been erectedin the time of Edward I., on the site of a fortress called CastellCrogen, by Mortimer, Lord of Chirk and Nanfendwy. Leland hasdescribed the place as it appeared in his time— there is on a smallhille a mighty large and strong castell with dyvers towers, of latewell repeyred by Syr Wyllia
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