Author: W. Paley Baildon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780656988280

Excerpt from The Home Counties Magazine, 1908, Vol. 10: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey, and Kent Grays; both these roads join again at stanford-le-hope, about 1 1 miles distant, as a glance at the map will tell us. We take the left hand road leading to Aveley; it is a gentle incline for nearly a mile, at the top of the hill we notice some lodge gates; these form the entrance to Belhus, a fine old castellated building of the time of Henry VII, belonging to the Lennard Barrett family. The north side has mullioned windows with arched heads, and the house, with its crow-stepped gables and turrets, is rather picturesque; it is however not visible from the road in the summer time owing to the number of trees surrounding it. The house contains an unbroken series of portraits of the chief owners down to the present day. It is traditionally believed that Queen Elizabeth stayed here for one night when on her way to Tilbury, to review the tr00ps stationed there in readiness for the coming of King Phillip's great Armada; this, however, is very doubtful, although a room was I believe prepared for her, which is still kept and called by her name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.