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obelisk is of brick. Shenstone had but 300£ a year, and ruined himself by what he did to this farm. It is said that he died of the heartaches which his debts occasioned him. The part next the road is of red earth, that on the further part grey. The 1st. and 2d. cascades are beautiful. The landscape at No. 18. and prospect at 32. are fine. The Walk through the wood is umbrageous and pleasing. The whole arch of prospect may be of 90°. Many of the inscriptions are lost.
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seem now to be the standard of that simplicity; and a place conformable to them is deemed a farm in its utmost purity. An allusion to them evidently enters into the design of the
Leasowes, where they appear so lovely as to endear the memory of their author; and justify the reputation of Mr. Shenstone
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Halliday died in 1794, at the age of 45. In June 1795, Edward Butler
Hartopp became the owner of the estate, and held possession till July 1800, when it was transferred to Charles Hamilton, and when he became insolvent in 1807, it passed into the hands of Matthias Attwood, who unlike the previous
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Shropshire. Now the property of Mr. Horne by purchase. 150. as. within the walk. The waters small. This is not even an ornamented farm. It is only a grazing farm with a path round it. Here and there a seat of board, rarely any thing better. Architecture has contributed nothing. The
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at the entrance of the house and a folly hermitage in the high wood, which was decorated with "stained glass windows, furnace cinders, cowheel bones, horses' teeth, etc." (this was not in keeping with
Shenstone's park improvements).
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owners did not take any action to preserve
William Shenstone's park features, and by the 1820s the park grounds had sunk into a "state of ruin and desolation". An extended description of the landscapes of
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is both great and elegant, though neglected ... Shenstone's
Leasowes is the simplest and plainest, but the most rural of all. I saw no spot so small that exhibited such a variety of beauties.
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Shenstone died in 1763. The house and grounds were purchased by Edward Horne, who demolished
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The view from the ruined
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In 1789 Edward Horne sold the property to Major Francis Halliday who made considerable additions to the house and parkland. He added a stone
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and of the Leasowes in 1845, with reflections on Shenstone, is given by the Scottish geologist
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