The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . ouse, one of the royalresidences, w^e pass CastleRising, with its historicalruined castle, and come toKings Lynn, a busy riverport and a quaint old townsituated on the banks of theOuse. The roomy housesof its old-time merchantsline the ancient cobble-stoned waterside streetsand among the otherobjects of interest in thisfascinating to\\Ti are thebeautiful 17th centuryCustom House, the Guild-hall, the South Gate
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . ouse, one of the royalresidences, w^e pass CastleRising, with its historicalruined castle, and come toKings Lynn, a busy riverport and a quaint old townsituated on the banks of theOuse. The roomy housesof its old-time merchantsline the ancient cobble-stoned waterside streetsand among the otherobjects of interest in thisfascinating to\\Ti are thebeautiful 17th centuryCustom House, the Guild-hall, the South Gate, areminder that Lynn wasonce a walled town, andSt. Margarets Church. THE DUKERIES. The district known as the Dukeries is not markedas such on the average map, though there certainly is arailway station known as Dukeries Junction, but roughlyspeaking it covers the ground coming within an eight mileradius of the small village of Ollerton in derives its name from the fact that the district is made upof four ducal estates, originally included in the Forest ofSherwood and the Abbey lands of Welbeck. The fournobles concerned were the Dukes of Newcastle, Portland, 56. Lily THE MARKET CROSS,WYMONDHAM. THE DUKERIES. Norfolk and Kingston. Welbeck Abbey is still the seat ofthe Duke of Portland, and Clumber that of the Duke ofNewcastle, but the dukedom of Kingston has long beenextinct, while the Manor of Worksop which belonged to theDuke of Norfolk has been sold. Thoresby Park, 12 milesin circumference, is the seat of Earl Manvers. Most of the roads through these estates are privateand the great houses are not shown to visitors, but someof the roads closed to motorists are open to horsed vehiclesbelonging to members of the Dukeries Posting ProprietorsAssociation. Pedestrians and cyclists are admitted to theparks on certain conditions, particulars of which can beobtained from the local hotel proprietors. Ollerton is a quiet little village, with an ancient hos
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