A description of Buxton, and the adjacent country, or, The new guide, for ladies and gentlemen, resorting to that place of health and amusement; where for the convenience of the public, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, has magnificently provided such very handsome and ample accommodations / compiled by W. Bott.

  • Bott, William.
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of Buxton, and the adjacent country, or, The new guide, for ladies and gentlemen, resorting to that place of health and amusement; where for the convenience of the public, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, has magnificently provided such very handsome and ample accommodations / compiled by W. Bott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    refemblance to the round towers and buttref- fes of a ruined caflle, and in fome parts there is fuch an appearance of mouldings, that one can fcarcely help thinking it is not as nature formed it. The rocks are entirely perpendicular, rifing to the height of three or four hundred feet, and are every where naked and unadorned, excepting a point near the entrance into Eycun dale, where Mr. Longs den has raifed a beautiful planta- tion, in the midlt of which, he has formed a grotto, and furnilhed it with the molt elegant foflils, collected in that part of the country. Chatfworth, the feat of his Grace the Duke of Devonjhire, is about feventeen miles from Buxton, and it is not eafy to fay which is moll deferving of admiration, the magnificence of the Building, or the extraordinay appearance -of the country in which it is fituated. Up- on your approaching the holife at Chatfworth, you are ftruck with the idea of a palace, and immediately conceive that fo grand and no- ble a manlion can be only proper for the re- fidence of a fubjeft of the lirlt rank and for- D 2 tune: