Stourhead
Britishnoun
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The geological collections—stones and fossils; and some interesting models of Avebury and Stonehenge, and particularly the Stourhead antiquities—British and prehistoric—should on no account be missed.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
Three holes on each side of the monument represented the sources of the Stour at Stourhead, and these figured in the armorial bearings of the family.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
This is followed by the "Elysian Tempe of Stourhead," the seat of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, to whose talents and benevolence Mr. Bowles pays a merited tribute.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 350, January 3, 1829 by Various
Sir Richard died at Stourhead, Wiltshire, on the 19th of May 1838, being succeeded in the baronetcy by his half-brother, Henry Hugh Hoare.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
M.S.S. dated 1703, of the Phillips Stourhead Collection, No. 22244.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
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