. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . reft, one of thefeats of the Duke of Grafton, is fituated about three miles fromTowcefter, and is one of the moft delightful houfes in and woods are divided into walks and viftas, fromwhich there is a fine profpeit over the adjacent country. Hereis a park, with deer, which is railed in.—This nobleman hasalfo a feat at Grafton-Regis, eight miles from Northampton. N
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . reft, one of thefeats of the Duke of Grafton, is fituated about three miles fromTowcefter, and is one of the moft delightful houfes in and woods are divided into walks and viftas, fromwhich there is a fine profpeit over the adjacent country. Hereis a park, with deer, which is railed in.—This nobleman hasalfo a feat at Grafton-Regis, eight miles from Northampton. North-weft of Thrapftonis Drayton-Ho use, which wasbuilt on the ruins of an ancient caftle, and confifts of a noblefront, with lofty towers on each end. Before the houfe is a finepiece of water, and the whole is fo fhaded over with tall trees,that it is fcarcely exceeded by any other in a variety of intermarriages, it has paffed through many diffe-rent families, and is now the property of Lord George Ger-maine. Rockingham-Castle is the feat of Lord Sondes. Alofty caftle was built here by William the Norman, fituatedon the fide of a hill, and flrongly fortified by ditches and ram-parts,. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 63 parts. Great part of it is Still Standing, confifting of exceedinggood walls, and on the upper part is a beautiful range ofbattlements. The foreft around it is one of the beft in Eng-land, and was formerly ftocked with deer, but at prefent affordsgreat quantities of wood, much of which is made into char-coal. At Eafton-Mauduit near Wellingborough is a feat of theEarl of SufTex. At Dean, 18 miles from Northampton, is afeat of the Earl of Caidigan; and at Aftwell, near Brackley,is one belonging to Earl Ferrers. The Earl of Halifax has afeat at Horton near Northampton j the Earl of Weftmoreland,at Apethorp, near Oundle; the Earl of Dyfart, at Harrington,near Rothwellj and Lord Craven, at Winwick, fix miles fromOundle. RUTLANDSHIRE. This county is bou
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