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Gage, Lord, 59, 96. (see Plashet Place, and Westbrook House)

Garnier—— Esq. 97, 213. (see Wickham Corner)

Garston Hall, 55.

Gatcomb, 32.

Gatton Park, 47, 54, the seat of Sir Mark Wood. This mansion stands in the middle of an extensive park, ornamented with wood and water tastefully arranged, and forming a most charming residence.

Gibbons, Sir William, 174. (see Stanwell Place)

Gipps, G. Esq, 9. (see Ileden)

Givens Grove, 62.

Glanville—— Esq. 124. (see Catchfrench)

Gloucester, H. R. H. the Duke of, 72, 87. (see Bagshot Park and Bolderwood Lodge)

Gloucester Lodge, 171.

Gloucester, H. R. H. Princess Sophia of, 92. (see Ironshill Lodge)

Goodlad—— Esq. 97. (see Hill Place)

Goodwood, 36, 40, 216, the seat of the Duke of Richmond. The mansion is advantageously situated in a spacious park, commanding extensive and delightful prospects. After a variety of alterations and additions to the present time, this mansion has arrived at a degree of elegance and splendour truly worthy its present noble possessor. The principal front, and the west wing, are new. The former, which faces the south, is only one story high, with a circular tower of two stories, crowned with a low dome at each end. The centre is embellished with a portico of six Ionic columns of Portland stone, which support another of the same number of Doric pillars, surmounted by a ballustrade. Each of the wings, forming obtuse angles with the front, has also a circular tower at its extremity. The apartments are spacious and elegant.

The stables and offices, situated westward of the house, are a handsome quadrangular building, inferior to few in the kingdom. The kennel for the hounds exceeds in magnificence, and conveniences of every kind, any structure, perhaps, ever raised before for a similar purpose. The gardens are extensive, and tastefully laid out. Here is also a magnificent tennis-court. The park contains 2000 acres, in which, on a rising ground, is erected a beautiful pleasure-house, called Cairney Seat: from this building the most magnificent views present themselves. Adjoining the park, on a hill, is a race course, where races are held two or three days, in the latter end of April, or beginning of May.

The lion, carved in wood, which ornamented the head of Commodore Anson’s ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, is placed on a pedestal, near the Duke of Richmond Inn.

Goring, C. Esq. 66. (see Highden)

Grainger—— Esq. 49. (see Bridge House)

Grant—— Esq. 213. (see Park Place)

Grant, J. Esq. 80. (see Windmill Hill)

Graves, Lord, 123. (see Thanks)

Greenwich Park, 1. This spot has been long celebrated as the favourite residence of several of our sovereigns, having a magnificent palace, on the site of which is now erected that most splendid monument of national glory, Greenwich Hospital; the prudence and humanity of which institution confers an immortality of renown on its royal founders, William the Third and Queen Mary. The architect was Sir Christopher Wren, who, after having adapted to his plan the wing of a palace, erected by Charles the Second, in 1696, laid the foundation of the first new building, and the superstructure was completed in two years afterwards. From this period the Hospital has been gradually enlarged and improved, till it has arrived at its present height of splendour and magnificence. Greenwich Hospital is principally built of Portland stone, and consists, in its present state, of four distinct quadrangular piles of building, distinguished by the names of the respective monarchs in whose reigns they were founded or built. The grand front opens on a terrace, skirting the southern bank of the Thames, and extending to the length of 865 feet, in the centre of which is a descent to the river, by a double flight of steps. The ground plot of the whole edifice forms nearly a square, of which King Charles’s building occupies the north-west angle; Queen Ann’s, the north-east; King William’s, the south-west; and Queen Mary’s, the south-east. The interval between the two former buildings forms a square, 270 feet wide, in the middle of which is the statue of George the Second, sculptured by Rysbrach, out of a single block of white marble, weighing eleven tons, which was taken from the French by Admiral Sir George Rooke, and given to the Hospital by Sir John Jennings, governor.

Greenwich Park was disjoined from the palace when the latter was converted into an hospital, and it still continues to be vested in the crown. It contains 880 acres, and was walled round with brick by James the First. The upper part, adjoining to Blackheath, is considerably elevated; and from One Tree Hill and the Observatory, which stands on the site of a tower erected by the good Duke of Gloucester, the prospects are uncommonly fine, particularly of the metropolis, the county of Essex, and the serpentine windings of the Thames, animated by the crowds of shipping that are continually navigating its busy stream. Greenwich Hospital is immediately under the eye; and with the adjacent country and river, and London in the distance, presents as interesting a coup-d’œil as can well be imagined. The park itself affords much rich scenery: it was laid out by Le Nôtre, in the time of Charles the Second, and is planted chiefly with elms and Spanish chesnuts, some of which latter are very large. In one part are remains of various ancient Barrows, most of which were opened, in the year 1784, by Mr. Douglas, author of the “Nenia Britannica.” Among the articles found in them were spear heads, knives, human bones, and hair, fragments of woollen cloth, lumps of iron, and broad-headed nails, with decayed wood adhering to them.

The Ranger’s Lodge, an edifice once splendid, though now greatly delapidated, was the occasional retirement of the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, when prime minister: his wife, the Lady Catherine Pelham, being then Ranger of the park. No other person was appointed to that office till it was given to the Princess of Wales. The Tower in Greenwich Park, which had been erected by Duke Humphrey, after having been rebuilt, and subsequently repaired, was pulled down by Charles the Second, in 1675, who founded on its site the present Royal Observatory. This spot was chosen by the recommendation of Sir Christopher Wren, and the celebrated Flamstead was appointed the first Astronomer Royal, by the advice of Sir Jonas Moore. The king gave £500, and as many bricks as were wanted, from a spare stock at Tilbury Fort, which together with the materials of the old Tower, compose the present building, which was completed in 1676 The present Astronomer Royal is John Pond, Esq. Within the building is a deep dry well, formed for the purpose of admitting observations to be made on the stars in the day time.

Greville—— Esq. 220. (see Shirley House)

Grove House, 61.

Grove, Mrs. 164. (see Zeals House)

Grove Place, 220.

Gwydir, Lord, 16. (see Langley Park)

Gwynne, Gen. 74. (see Elvetham)