An Illustrated Weekly Magazine for the Architect, Engineer, Archaeologist, Constructor, Sanitary Reformer, and Art-Lover, July to December, 1888There also exist in the parish some excava tions in the chalk of considerable extent, which have been supposed to have served as cave dwellings.At the Conquest the manor was given to De la Beche, in whose family it remained for three centuries, it afterwards belonged to the Norroys, by one of whom the church was rebuilt in 1450.The residence of the present Lord of the Manor, Mr. Waterhouse, was built in 1879, and is of red local brick with buff terra-cotta dress ings and Ruabon tiles. A conspicuous feature of the exterior is the tower, in which is the great water-tank, and from the top of which, 600 ft. Above the Ordnance datum, are obtained extensive views over the valleys of the Pang, the Kennett, and the Thames, to the hills of Hampshire and Oxfordshire. The front en trance has on the right the hall, of ample size.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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