The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-10

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while a space $50 feet wide By l,0I7 feet
long is divided into three huge pits for
forcing melons, cucumbers, asparagus,
and the like.
The Great Park lies to the south OF
Windsor It contains 1880 acres. Sew
eral magnificent roads intersect 1t. The
Long Walk, three miles in length and
bordered BY the finest Gins in Eng.
land, is the most famous. The royal
farms are in this park, and were con.
yerted to this use by George Ill, and
George ~. always made the present
Royal Lodge his SUMMER residence.
The noble structure called Cumberland
Lodge, built by William, Duke OF Cum
berland, uncle to George Ill, is near
the Royal Lodge, and is the present
residence OF the Prince and Princess
Christian and family.
Other interesting features OF Great
Park are Rhodendron Avenue, mile
in length, the great obelisk commem-
Grating Cumberland's victory at Cullo-
den where the house Of Stuart fell, the
Chapel Royal OF All Saints, the eques-
trian statue Of George Ill, and the
ROYAL Schools, founded and maintained
BY the queen for the education OF the
children OF the employees connected
with the royal domains, and Virginia
Water, winding amid charming seem
cry, and said to be the largest artificial
body OF water in the world.
Just west Of Great Park, along the
high road to Reading, lies what remains
of ancient Windsor forrest Its cir
cumterence was originally l2O miles.
In the northern portion the forest is
still primeval, and here are found oaks
rivaling in gir.h the most famous OF
Robin Hoods land in Nottinghamshire.
The King Oak, over 500 years ago the
fayorite tree OF William the Conqueror,
is still standing and is twenty-six feet
in girth three feet from the ground.
There are also four other famous oaks
here respectively known as the oaks OF
Queens Anne, Charlotte, Adelaide and
Victoria.
Besides these and many other fea-
lures OF immediate and present inter
est round about this royal residence,
there is a genuine fascination, while
high up here upon this huge round
tower, in scanning the landscape and
recalling objects and places mellow
with the traditions OF long ago, or spots
famous in the world of to-day. Just
over beyond Great Park are Ascot
heath and tho race course. The course.
is the finest in the kingdom. The
grand stand rivals in splendor and OK
tent the noted Epson betting stand;
and the races are always honored by
the presence OF members OF the royal
family, who are invariably driven to
Ascot through the royal parks from
Windsor.
WINFIELD, near Ascot, abound5 with
nearly two score gentlemen's seats in
parks OF the greatest scenic beauty. AT
Chertsey, but nine miles distant, once
famous Tor its abbey, lived ond died the
poet Cowley, while Albert Smith,
author Of christopher Tadpole," many
other works OF fiction aud many books
OF travel, whose genius barely fell
short OF that OF Dickens, was born in
the same quaint old village. Datchet,
on the Thames, about mile from
Windsor, has the remains OF very
ancient monastery, while Datchet Mead
was rendered famous by Shakespeare in
his merry Wives OF Windsor"
But four miles distant is the quaint
and seuuestered village of Horton. In
In this, at Berkyn Manor House, lived
Milton, with his father and mother
when they retired from business in
1882, and here was written his Go
mus, /" "Arcades," "Lycidas," "IAlle-
gro" ana I'll Penserero." At Old Wind
sor, two miles down the river, is one OF
the most impressive old eve and cy-
press shaded churchyards in England.
It's Moat Farm was the hunting seat OF
Saxon kings. Mrs. Robinson, the
authoress, and the unfortunate Per-
dita, is buried here; and its Beaumont
Lodge was the former home OF Warren
Hastings.
WINDSOR town.
Bray is but five miles distant, up the
Thames. The "Vicar OF Bray" one
Symonds, was that spiritually vivacious
cleric who changed his religion four
times, in successive reigns, that he
might live and die in mis- living" at
Beaconstield, to the north near Wilton
Park, was the home OF Waller, the
poet, and Burke. the statesman. Here
at Slough, two miles to the north, is tho
house occupied so long by Sir William
Herschel, and Won will see here part
OF his great iorty-foot telescope; while
two miles further, beyond meadows
green, nesting in clumps OF yew and
oak, is the olden home OF the Penns,
near which is the messy old parish
church Of Stoke Poges, where was writ
ten the purest and sweetest elegy III
the English tongue.
But coming closer to royal Windsor is
Windsor town itself. Scarcely more
than village it struggles up to the
castle walls like mass OF dependent re-
lations iawningly creeping close to the
source OF favor ahd bounty. l. may alone
fancy it, but the folk, the houses, the
streets, all sights and seemings, pos
sess a cringing, servile air. It is
drowsy and ancient enough surely. You
can find many old half-tumbled houses
here; almost every home, and they are
chiefly humble ones, has its little
square grass plat OF the ancient time in
front OF it; and the very names OF its
few and odd old inns, such as Adam and
Eve, Hand and Glove and Merry Wives
OF Windsor, are redolent OF the swords,
rufEs and wigs OF EIizabethian days.
1t seems to me that after one has
grown little familiar with this most
familiar OF all royal residences, Wind
sor Castle itself, its inmates and all its
present splendor, take less and less hold
upon the visitor. and that the wraiths
OF historic associations and memories
conjured up by what one cannot but
see and feel, grow more and more i'm
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