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VI.
BOWLING-GREENS
139
green was usually square, and it seems to have
been placed indifferently at the back or sides
of the house. In later work the bowling-green
was sometimes placed at a distance from the
house, and laid out circular. At Cashiobury,
laid out by Cook for Lord Essex, the bowling-
green was placed at the end of a long avenue,
and surrounded by a circular belt of fir-trees.
At Penshurst the green was put out in the
middle of a field. At Hampton Court the
bowling-green is over half a mile from the
palace. It is oval in plan and lies at the end of
the Long Walk. This bowling-green is now
planted over with trees. One of the pavilions
remains ; the other was destroyed in this cen-
tury. Bowling-greens continued to be laid out
in the eighteenth century. In Kip's view of
Knole in Britannia Illustrata no bowling-green
is shown ; but in Badeslade's view,1 made about
twenty years later, a beautiful bowling-green is
shown on the south side of the house. This
was oval in plan, about 70 paces by 40, sur-
rounded by a high clipped hedge with arbours
on the east and west sides, and openings 011 the
north and south. It was reached by a double
flight of steps from the lower parterres in front
of the house. From the fact that this is not
shown in Kip, it is probable that it was made
early in the eighteenth century. At Radley Col-
5 Badeslade's Views of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats in the County of
Kent.
BOWLING-GREENS
139
green was usually square, and it seems to have
been placed indifferently at the back or sides
of the house. In later work the bowling-green
was sometimes placed at a distance from the
house, and laid out circular. At Cashiobury,
laid out by Cook for Lord Essex, the bowling-
green was placed at the end of a long avenue,
and surrounded by a circular belt of fir-trees.
At Penshurst the green was put out in the
middle of a field. At Hampton Court the
bowling-green is over half a mile from the
palace. It is oval in plan and lies at the end of
the Long Walk. This bowling-green is now
planted over with trees. One of the pavilions
remains ; the other was destroyed in this cen-
tury. Bowling-greens continued to be laid out
in the eighteenth century. In Kip's view of
Knole in Britannia Illustrata no bowling-green
is shown ; but in Badeslade's view,1 made about
twenty years later, a beautiful bowling-green is
shown on the south side of the house. This
was oval in plan, about 70 paces by 40, sur-
rounded by a high clipped hedge with arbours
on the east and west sides, and openings 011 the
north and south. It was reached by a double
flight of steps from the lower parterres in front
of the house. From the fact that this is not
shown in Kip, it is probable that it was made
early in the eighteenth century. At Radley Col-
5 Badeslade's Views of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats in the County of
Kent.