The Imperial Guide With Picturesque Plans Of The Great Post Roads

Author : James Baker
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230165042
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Guide, with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post-Roads written by James Baker and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ...agreeably undulates on every side the road, and on the most prominent parts, many wood scenes successively open to it. After passing Hare Hatch, many spacious tracks of arables and distant levels of meadow lands, that partly border the river Thames and the Loddon, are in the prospects. Twyford is a small village, that is situated on the last named, where are two fords, i. e. Twyford. Near Ruscomb church, that lies a short way left to the entrance of it, is a seat of the Ayres's. Farther on the same hand is Lord Braybrook's and Colonel Gower. Before entering it, on the right, is seen the village of Wargrave. Here was once a market town, and an estate of Queen Emma, and there are the elegant improvements of the late Lord Barrymore, the Matthews's, and the Hill's. Passing Twyford, Sheeplake is a small village seen at some distance to the right upon an eminent border of the river Thames, beyond which, alike situated, is the pleasant village of Sunning, which may be passed by a small deviation from the high road. At this place was formerly a monastery and a chapel, which, according to Leland, was much frequented for the cure of madness: it had also a bishop's see until Hurmanis, the last resident, translated it to Sarum. At this is the antient family of the Rich's, and near it is the handsome seat of the Palmer's; Sir William Scott's at a little farther than this nearer the road. The Wheble's and the Marquis of Blandford's are at a short distance to the left; that on a conspicuous eminence to the right is the Marsac's. Reading is a county town of much consequence and fashion, and is of considerable note for antiquity. The Danes had a station here, for the security of which they made a ditch that reached from the Thames to the river Kennet. By...