Description of 23-C Bramham Park Gardens
1. Architectural descriptions of the Grade II listed Circular Pond 50 metres south of the house and of the Grade I listed Obelisk Pond 300 metres south of the house.
2. & 3. A Yorkshire Evening Post article dated 23 March 1968 relating how a government grant of £8260 will be used to restore the park's elaborate system of water cascades and ornamental ponds.
4. A letter dated 15 May 1991 from English Heritage to Smiths Gore (the Park's estate agents) discussing the importance of the similarity between the cascade and that of the recently excavated one at Stanway in Gloucestershire (see items 14,15)
5. & 6. A press photograph of Mrs. Lane Fox inspecting the newly discovered 18th century 140 ft. cascade.
7. An incomplete and undated manuscript describing a journey visiting some of Yorkshire's grand houses including "We lay at Bramham, Lord Bingley's new stone house with a Hall of exact cube 30 feet high & square richly adorned with Corinthian pillars & all the rooms well proportioned & perfectly well finished ............" He also rode with Lord Bingley through his "3 noble woods".
8. A very faded map of 'Bramham Parke the seat of the Rt. Honble. Robert Benson'
9. An old photo of the gate house on the approach to the eastern side of Bramham Park.
10. Untitled photo of a memorial urn?
11. Old photo of Beech avenues in the park
12. Photo of the Gothic Garden Temple
13. An undated press report by Norman Hammond, archaeology correspondent, on the discovery of the cascade.
14. & 15. A detailed architectural description of the 250 hectare grounds and features of Bramham Park Gardens plus a similar description of Stanway House medieval deer park. These are probably the documents referred to in item 4.
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