Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England. Georgian Gothic-style stately home with formal gardens built by Thomas Allason, William Hollins and Thomas Hopper in 1801 for Charles Talbot, 15th Earl of Shrewsbury. Gothic towers by Augustus Pugin. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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