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Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: Cashiobury Park, Ashridge Park, Woburn Abbey, and Hatfield House, in October 1825

Woburn Abbey Public Day

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Oct.16. This, being Monday, is the public day for seeing through the house and pleasure-grounds at Woburn Abbey. Of the house, and the buildings connected with it, we shall only observe that the gallery of statuary is the most extraordinary thing of the kind in Britain, out of London. It is gratifying, in another gallery, in the interior of the Abbey, to observe the models of castle and other domestic animals reared under the direction of the late Duke Francis. In one room is a series of miniatures of the heads of the Russell family, from the earliest times to the present. A biographical account of them has been written by the late Mr. Wiffen [whose lamented death we have heard of while passing this sheet through the press.].