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Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wilshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent in the Summer of 1832

Motcombe House

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Motcombe House, Lord Robert Grosvenor. - The situation is flat and dull in the extreme; because it is flat without water on the ground, and without hills in the immediate vicinity; in short, a flat in the midst of a flat. Along the road there is an extensive plantation recently formed, the weeds in which, such as docks and thistles, both in full seed, were more abundant than the trees.