: not more than fifty acres, within a ring fence and belt. It has a very pleasant appearance, being well furnished with single trees, clumps, and groups. A small stream, which rises close by, runs through the middle of it, and is swelled into a lake containing four or five acres. The approach to the house is by a wooden bridge at the upper end on the right, before reaching it, is an ash eighty feet high and eight feet in circumference; it is without any branch, and almost of the same size to the height of thirty or forty feet from the ground. Beyond the bridge, on the right, is another seventy feet high, and eleven feet in circumference: it is equally large at twelve feet high. On the left, in a thicket, is a poplar, apparently quite sound, ninety-five feet high and fourteen feet and a half in circumference. Further on is a row of elms, one of which is eighty-three feet high and thirteen in circumference. Immediately in front of the house is a short avenue of lime-trees, averaging between sixty and seventy feet in height and eight feet in circumference. At the end of it, nearest the house, are two groups of horse chestnuts, some of which, at one foot from the ground, are fifteen feet in circumference, and rise to the height of sixty-five feet: the branches of one reach to the ground, and extend thirty-six feet on each side the stem. On the west side of the house is a tulip-tree, forty-five feet high and six feet in circumference. Not far from this, is a larch, fifty-five feet high and ten feet in circumference, its lower branches sweeping the ground and extending on all sides more than thirty feet from the stem. There is a Platanus seventy-five feet high and eight feet in girth. The house is a plain irregular building of different dates, additions and alterations having been made by different proprietors. The brick-work in front is universally admired; but, from the nature of the site, the prospect from the house is very confined. On the east of the building is the garden, containing three large hothouses, &c. Behind the garden walls, where, tradition says, there was once a churchyard, is an old elm, kept sacred when some others were felled, measuring sixty-eight feet in height and eleven feet in girth; its branches covering the ground to the extent of 200 feet in circumference. Near it, is an aspen, still in vigorous growth, girting nine feet, and rising to an altitude of eighty feet. Within the garden is a weeping birch, fifty-eight feet high and seven feet in circumference: its pendulous branches touch the ground, drooping from twelve to sixteen feet. Adjoining the garden on the south and east, is a wood of considerable extent, usually called the Shrubbery, though it has now lost all claim to that character. The estate contains about 4000 acres, one-third of which is heath, and the rest arable, divided into three or four farms. Stradsett Hall, the seat of William Bagge, Esq., M.P., is a large ancient mansion, situated in a well-wooded park of about 300 acres. The lake, designed by Loudon, is generally admired. The gardens, with the forcinghouses and pleasure-grounds, are considered to be as complete as any in the county; but, with others of an equally important caste, we must leave this seat to be descanted on at some future time. GENERAL INDEX. For an obvious reason, we have included in this Index only a few of the more noted trees Acacia, False, 17, 57, 309 Alder, St. George's Bridge, 319 Ash-trees, remarkable, 33, 180, 252, Ash, Weeping, 220, 345 Aylsham, Trees of, 90, 332 Bacton, Wood of, 316 Bayfield Hall, 231 Beachamwell, 341 Beaupre Hall, 347 Beech, Chapter on the, 247 Beeches, remarkable, 86, 113, 320, 334 Beeston St. Andrew, 334 Birch, remarkable Weeping, 86, 318 Blickling Park, 96 Booton Hall, 142 Bowthorpe Farm, 323 Bramerton, 362 Brooke, 361 Brooke Hall, 241 Brooke House, 243 Brooke, Wood of, 316 Broome Hall, Trees of, 317 Caister St. Edmund, 326 Catton Hall, 29 Catton, Gardens of, 322, 333 Cedar of Lebanon, Chapter on, 102 Cedars, Red, remarkable, 227, 309 Chestnuts, Sweet, remarkable, 91, Cley Hall, 363 Clippesby House, 363 Colney Hall, 304 Cork-trees, remarkable, 227, 310 Cossey Park, 31 Cossey Village, 323 Cranwich Hall, 349 Cringleford Village, 323 Crostwick oak, 336 Crostwight, Wood of, 316 Crowe, the botanist, Garden of, 320 Cypress, remarkable, 226 Deopham, 361 Dereham, 17 Diss, 357 Ditchingham House, 253 Downham, 347 Drayton Village, 322 Willow, Blue, remarkable, 323 Winfarthing, 354 Witton House, 331 Woodbastwick Hall, 308 Woods, Our, 313 Worstead House, 228 Yarmouth, 327 Yew, Chapter on the, 144 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS WHOSE SEATS, RESIDENCES, OR GARDENS ARE NOTICED Adair, Mrs. 321 Albemarle, Earl of, 354 Allen, Rev. William, 343 Angerstein, J. J., Esq. 354 Bacon, Sir Edmund, Bart. 262 Bagge, William, Esq. M.P. 364 Bedingfeld, J. L., Esq. 253 Berners, Lord, 251 Berney, Thomas T., Esq. 58 Blake, William Jex, Esq. 336 Blofeld, Rev. T. C. 214 Boileau, Sir J. P., Bart. 278 Bond, Mr. 322 Boucher, Mr. 346 Bradfield, James, Esq. 348 Bradshaw, Captain, 322 Brown, Mrs. 358 Browne, Edward, Esq. 324 Browne, Misses, 323 Browne, Mr. H. 351 Browne, Thomas, Esq. 363 Buckle, Rev. T. S. 324 Buckworth, T. R., Esq. 363 Bulwer, Rev. Mr. 93 Bulwer, W. E. Lytton, Esq. 160 Bunting, Mr. (Swaffham), 341 Burroughes, H. N., Esq., M.P. 362 Buxton, Sir John, Bart. 354 Cambridge, Mr. W. 347 |