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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elms. 64 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD; FROM A hill rises boldly on its northern side,crowned with wood, sloping to the centreof the park; and its other grounds are plea-santly varied, and well laid out. The pa-rish church, a small neat building, standsclose to the principal front of the house,and partly intercepts the view of it fromthe southern side of the park. Dr. Buckeridge, Bishop of Rochester andEly, who died in 1631, was born here.—Mr. Aubrey> in his distresses, found a par-ticular friend in Lady Long; and was goingto Draicot, when death overtook him atOxford, about the year 1700; after havingspent the earlier part of life in the illustra-tion of British antiquities, and of those ofthis country in particular, of which he wasa native. After leaving Chippenham, we passthrough a pleasant district of country, amixture of cultivation and grass fields. Be-fore we arrive at the ninety-fifth mile stone,the road ascends a hill, and winds along itsnorthern side; beyond this, by an easy
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LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 65 ascent, we approach Corsham, leaving abeautiful grass vale, adorned with wood,on the right. CORSHAM. Cosham, or Corsham is a small neattown, standing on a flat, in a dry, healthysituation, near the Bath road. It is ofgreat antiquity. Ethelred, the Saxon king,had a palace here, and it was the seat ofseveral of the Earls of Cornwal; one ofwhom, Earl Edmund, obtained a charterfor its market, which, though long dis-used, is now attempted to be restored;and a neat market-house has been erected,at the expence of Paul Methuen, Esq. lordof the manor. The town of Corsham like-wise enjoys many other privileges, derivedby the inhabitants from the grants of Ri-chard Earl of Cornwal, Earl Edmunds 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 st

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