Stourhead

Stour rises is known as Stourhead; and we had seen a monument, rather a fine one, in Salisbury Cathedral, to the murderer, Lord Charles

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

An old road, the Hardway, leads eastwards from the crossroads towards Stourhead where the Hoare family created their notable garden and lake.

Country diary: Somerset 2010

Recently we were taken to walk a curious and little-known track, made of broken cobbles and sometimes called the old coach road, following a rigidly straight line from Redlynch towards Stourhead for several miles across fields.

Country diary: Somerset 2010

Every year thousands of Americans make pilgrimages to imposing pleasure grounds such as Stowe in Buckinghamshire or Stourhead in Wiltshire.

The Roots of a Gardening Obsession Andrea Wulf 2009

To these pursuits he owed, too, those rare and delightful visits to Stourhead, the seat of Sir Richard Hoare, when at last he mixed with men of his own calibre, and met the gentlemen who were engaged in examining the antiquities of

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

In the summer of 1751, I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire; but I was less delighted with the beauties of Stourhead, than with discovering in the library a common book, the Continuation of Echard's Roman History, which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

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.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter 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 John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Walpole names Theobalds and Nonsuch as famous examples of the old formal style of garden; Stourhead, Hagley, and Stowe -- the country seat of

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

No sweeter submission to mastery can be imagined than the way the daffodils, under his brush (to begin at the beginning), break out into early April in the lovely drawings of Stourhead.

Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879