Showing posts with label Newton House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newton House. Show all posts
Monday, 17 September 2012
Welsh Newton House
Caroline has Welsh ancestors, and this is the view they constructed from the rear of their Carmarthenshire mansion, near Llandeilo. I say "constructed", as it apparently involved razing a village and getting in Capability Brown to do the necessary. The result - after a couple of centuries' bedding in - is certainly pleasing.
We hadn't visited Newton House before: it's a stark place, with little but some family pictures to tell its story. Nevertheless, the setting with White Park cattle grazing is alone worth the National Trust's admission fee. Who would be a volunteer at such a place though?
Labels:
Llandeilo,
National Trust,
Newton House,
Rice family
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