Author: Stephen
Foreman
ISBN: 0 86025 492 5 |
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Hylands was developed in 1728 and
has been changed many times since then. An ex-slaver brought
in Humphry Repton to gentrify the estate, while a banker,
who bought it in 1814, developed greenhouses and was a regular
exhibitor at the Royal Horticultural Society. Attwood had
delusions of grandeur, became a Member of Parliament, but
was disbarred.
Pryor was a philanthropist who rebuilt
Widford and built Galleywood churches. Then the Gooch family
made it fashionable in Edwardian times. The Hanburys acquired
the estate and maintained it until the 1960s when it fell
into decline. Now Chelmsford Council is restoring the house
to very high standards.
128 pages, 40 photographs, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps
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