Rousdon - Dowlands Traditional Cache
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Lindinis (Ernie) - Groundspeak Volunteer Reviewer for South West England.
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One of three caches near the Rousdon estate in East Devon. A bridleway connects the caches and makes an interesting walk.
Brief history of the estate. In 1870 Sir Henry Peek, MP for Wimbledon, who had been engaged in the tea trade since the end of the 18th Century, purchased the village of Rousdon. Firstly, he rebuilt the church and built the village school. He then commissioned Ernest George to design a Mansion and other buildings to take advantage of the superb position 500 feet above the sea. Being some distance from the nearest town, the house had to be self sufficient with laundry, coach houses, harness rooms, wine cellars, bowling alley, rifle range, china stores, bake houses, larders, museum, observatory, walled garden, tennis courts, farm buildings and numerous cottages to house the Estate population, which at the end of the 19th Century extended to about 600. The architectural style of the Mansion and other buildings have been variously described as Franco-Flemish and Tudoresque in style, and are built mainly of flint rubble with freestone dressings, plain tiled roofs, ornamental timber work, with some tile hung work and redbrick. The buildings are set within a fine late 19th Century designed landscape where there is evidence of the careful manipulation of space to give the illusion of great size, dramatic visual effects along avenues of trees towards the mansion, uninterrupted expansive views to the south, and a particularly fine walled garden.
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