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stood in more than three acres of well-timbered ground, and was noted for its limes and for the lindens from which it took its name.3

The balustraded wall around the nine-bedroomed house cut off the noise of hooves and jingling reins from the busy High Road in the parish of Chiswick and its occupants strolled over trim lawns and neat gravel paths

It had a 300-foot frontage, a huge library, greenhouses, coach houses, stabling for seven horses, a kitchen garden and a very large lawn and

3. Linden House was demolished in 1879. A street of houses called Linden Gardens now stands on the site.

The imposing front of Linden House, Wainewright’s childhood home in Turnham Green, London, to which he was to return after his grandfather’s death and in which his uncle George and his mother-in-law were to die suddenly.

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JOHN PRICE WILLIAMS

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