Catalogue description Proposed design for Foremark Hall grounds Detailed design showing Old Hall, River Trent,...

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Details of D5054/26/1
Reference: D5054/26/1
Description:

Proposed design for Foremark Hall grounds Detailed design showing Old Hall, River Trent, roads towards Tamworth, Ingleby Heath, etc. 'Coach road from Sir John Harpur's', Foremark Church, 'Anchor Church', new loges near perimeter wall.

 

Garden design features include 'alderie with ponds and cascades', 'iron gates and peers etc from the garden', 'lodge or stand in highest point of view', avenues, lawns, platoons of trees, 'cold bath', conduit, 'new cutt [from River Trent] to be supplied from the village', 'offices obscured by high espalier hedges', kitchen gardens. Key to features A-Z.

 

Surveyor: unnamed [?Bourginion]

 

Scale: 100 feet : 1 inch

 

Size: 60 x 80 inches

Date: c1737
Held by: Derbyshire Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical condition: Paper, col [damaged]

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