Identifier: topographicalsur02robe (find matches)
Title: A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Robertson, Archibald
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Publisher: London: : Printed for the author... and William Faden...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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munds pre-decessor.—The houses are of stone, in ge-neral, well built, and a handsome churchstands on its western side; adjoining towhich is Corsham House. VOL. II. F 66 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROiM CORSHAM HOUSE, The seat of Paul Methuen, Esq. is a stately,stone mansion. It stands in a fine park,close to the eastern side of the town, andseems to have been built at different pe-riods, the southern and eastern fronts beingthe most modern parts of it: the viewsfrom the latter, are particularly pleasing.The pleasure-grounds were laid out by Mr.Brown; and the great-room, and drawing-room, to the east, were added about thesame time. This house is at present, the repositoryof the principal pictures of that well-known capital collection of the late RightHonourable Sir Paul Methuen, Knight ofthe Bath, and were removed from his housein Grosvenor Street, soon after they cameinto Mr. Methuens possession. A smallpart of this invaluable collection of pic-tures still remains, as we have been in-
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LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 67 formed, in Mr. Methuens house, in Grosve-nor Street. This place, as well as the adjoining town,is of great antiquity; and is thus mentionedin Goughs Camden, from the authority ofLeland: Cosham, a good uplandish town, where the ruins of an old manor-place, and thereby a park, wont to be the dower to the Queens of England. Mr. Baynton, in Oueen Annes days, pulled down by licence, a piece of this house, somewhat to help his buildings at Bromham. Old Mr. Bonhomme told me, that Cosham appertained to the Earldom of Cornwall, and that Cosham was a mansion-place belonging to it, where they sometimes lay. All the men of this townlet were bond, so that upon a time one of the Earls of Cornwall hearing them secretly lament their fate, manumitted them for money, and gave them the lordship of Cosham in copyhold, to pay a chief rent/ 68 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM Having again returned from Corsham,and proceeding on our journey, before wearrive at Pickwick the road s

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