Castle Hill, Devonshire. The seat of the Right Honourable Hugh Earl ... (1830)

J. Henshall
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Devon West Country Studies M SC1115
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1830
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Lysons, Daniel and Samuel. Magna Britannia: being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain: Vol. VI., Devonshire. p. 240. London: T. Cadell, 1822.Castle Hill, the seat of Earl Fortescue, is in this parish. The old mansion at Castle Hill was much altered by Hugh Fortescue, Lord Clinton, about the year 1740, and the grounds were laid out about the same time. The Portugal laurels in the shrubbery are of a remarkable size: the trunk of the smallest of four, is six feet seven inches in circumference; that of the largest, nine feet one inch; the spread of the branches of the latter is 135 feet in circumference. In the kitchen-garden, is a peach-tree of uncommon dimensions, reaching to the top of a sixteen-feet wall, and extending in length thirty-seven feet; it extended five of six feet further before it was checked by an unfavourable season four years ago. It is now all bearing wood: the sort is the galante.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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1830