The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . Gate House, Beaulieu. THE NEW FOREST ^3 abbey, and at St. Leonards, a branch colony nearer to the Solent isprobably the largest building of its kind existing. In the ruins of theabbey there are enough relics of interest to give material for days ofminute inquiry. It is hard to understand why Cobbett, whose eye for scenery, andadmiration for the great religious foundations destroyed by Henry VIII.,might have been expected to make him view with sympathy and apprecia-tion, a scene in which two such elements of in
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . Gate House, Beaulieu. THE NEW FOREST ^3 abbey, and at St. Leonards, a branch colony nearer to the Solent isprobably the largest building of its kind existing. In the ruins of theabbey there are enough relics of interest to give material for days ofminute inquiry. It is hard to understand why Cobbett, whose eye for scenery, andadmiration for the great religious foundations destroyed by Henry VIII.,might have been expected to make him view with sympathy and apprecia-tion, a scene in which two such elements of interest are combined, is. ~V- ;. .I ? I • - .? , li .I! ? ?? BeauUeu. rather cold in his praises of Beaulieu. The abbey, he writes in hisRide from Lyndhurst to Godalming, is not situated in a very fine situation is low ; the lands above it rather a swamp than otherwise —he must mean the lands higher up the stream, for the slopes above theabbey were the ancient site of vineyards, and necessarily dry and sunny—pretty enough altogether, he continues, but by no means a fineplace. Few people will be inclined to assent to this. As a site for thecolony for which it was chosen Beaulieu is almost perfect. The lake 64 THE NEW FOREST above and the river below, meadows so rich that the elms grow there toa size which rivals the forest oaks, the background of magnificent woodswhich run back for a mile to the crest of the great plain of BeaulieuHeath which lies above, give an air of propriety and richness to thesurroundings of the abbey for which it would be difficult to find aparallel elsewhe
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