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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
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eft side of the 158 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM road; near to which, on the south, liesNewton Park, the seat of J. Gore Langton,Esq. at which such improvements are nowmaking, as will render it a pleasant and de-sirable residence. Beyond the river, on the opposite side ofthe vale, stands a handsome mansion, nobly-situated on a high ridge crowned with wood,with the Avon gliding at its foot. Thiswas the seat of the late Sir Caesar Hawkins;now belonging to his family. To describe the several beauties of thevale of Bath would be tedious; I shall there-fore only say, that the part of it we havealready noticed, is possessed of hill and dale,wood and water, with every other requisitefor constituting rural English landscape, bynature elegantly arranged ; as is the morewestern part, which lies between this spotand the city of Bristol. Advancing from Newton, and leaving thesmall village of Corston on the left, wenext pass through Saltford; upon the rightof which, on the side of the Avon, stand
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LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 159 several paper, and brass mills. From hence,the road ascends a hill, leaving a deep ravineon the right hand, and woody hills on thesouth. We then proceed through a wellcultivated inclosed country towards Keyns-ham; before we arrive at which, a handsomehouse, the residence of Edward Lyne, Esq,appears on the north. Keynsham is a small market town, stand-ing upon two hills, on the northern bank ofthe Avon; and its western side is washedby the lesser stream of the river Chew,over which is a small bridge; and a commu-nication between the counties of Somersetand Gloucester is formed by a larger bridge,over the former of these rivers, below thetown. Here the Chew is lost in the Avon. Keynsham church is a stately Gothicstructure, with a square tower, and thehouses in general are tolerably built.—Thebanks of the Avon, on the north, below thetown, are formed of rich meadows, boundedby high grounds, tufted with wood ; which, 160 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM bein

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