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He strenuously resisted any opening up of the district by road or rail, lest the vibrations of traffic should interfere with his delicate observations and render them useless. He died here in 1867. On the south side of Campden Hill Gardens are a number of houses standing in their own grounds, and, from the rank of their residents, this part has gained the name of the "Dukeries."
While Tyson, after five years, passed on triumphantly to a lucrative agency in the Dukeries, having won a reputation for tact and patience in the impossible service of a mad master, which would carry him through life.
seems hardly likely to be realized. Late in the afternoon we left York over the Great North Road for Retford, from whence we expected to make the "Dukeries" circuit. The road runs through a beautiful section and passes many of the finest of the English country estates.
There her Majesty entered that most aristocratic portion of England known as "The Dukeries." The Duke of Rutland, attended by two hundred of his tenantry on horseback, awaited his guests at Red Mile, and rode with them the three miles to Belvoir. Soon after the Queen's arrival, Dr. Stanton presented her Majesty with the key of Stanton Town, according to the tenure on which that estate is held.
However, he was anxious to make for himself in some other line of endeavor, and while he was often my piano accompanist, he never had any intention of going on the stage. When he was fifteen years old, I was commanded to appear before King Edward, who was a guest at Rufford Abbey, the seat of Lord and Lady Sayville, situated in a district called the Dukeries, and I took John as my accompanist.
Edmunds Hengrave Hall Ely Peterborough Crowland Abbey Guthlac Norwich Castle and Cathedral Stamford Burghley House George Inn Grantham Lincoln Nottingham Southwell Sherwood Forest Robin Hood The Dukeries Thoresby Hall Clumber Park Welbeck Abbey Newstead Abbey Newark Hull William Wilberforce Beverley Sheffield Wakefield Leeds Bolton Abbey The Strid Ripon Cathedral Fountains Abbey Studley Royal Fountains Hall York Eboracum York Minster Clifford's Tower Castle Howard Kirkham Priory Flamborough Head Scarborough Whitby Abbey Durham Cathedral and Castle St.
On our arrival we learned that the Dukeries trip must be made by carriage and that the fifty miles would consume two days. We felt averse to subtracting so much from our already short remaining time, and when we found still further that admission was denied for the time at two of the most important estates, we decided to proceed without delay.
A short time before he was chosen he had claimed the Dukedom of Chatelherault in France, and was known in consequence among the malcontents as the 'French Frog. His wife was the daughter of one Duke of Bedford, and when another came to stay at the viceregal, it was for a time called the 'Dukeries. The A.D.C.'s, who were particularly good-looking, were at once known as the 'Duckeries.
The Beech Avenue is the only spot in the Dukeries that permits one to recreate mentally the life of the eighteenth century. It should not terminate in a roadway of comparatively slight interest, but should instead reach a water-theatre with a hornbeam hedge, with rockwork basins, and with tall silver fountains.
We may go back to London by Louth, famous for its church, spire, and comical coat of arms; by Boston and Peterborough; or take our way through the ancient city of Lincoln to Nottingham and the Midland Counties, where the famous forest of Robin Hood and the Dukeries invite us to study woodland scenery and light-land farming; but on this occasion we shall make our way to Sheffield, over a line which calls for no especial remark the most noticeable station being East Retford, for the franchise of which Birmingham long and vainly strove.
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