Stourhead
Britishnoun
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I go on Monday morning to Stourhead, where I stay till Saturday, and start Monday week for the Continent.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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
Walpole names Theobalds and Nonsuch as famous examples of the old formal style of garden; Stourhead, Hagley, and Stowe—the country seat of Lyttelton's brother-in-law, Lord Cobham—of the new.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The place where the River Stour rises is known as Stourhead; and we had seen a monument, rather a fine one, in Salisbury Cathedral, to the murderer, Lord Charles Stourton.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
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
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