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Temple near centre of square
©Chris Shaw
Dist:0.1km<br/>For the restoration of Matthew Brettingham's 18th-century [[253513]]. National Trust website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-petworthhouse.htm
©Andy Potter
Dist:0.1km<br/>18th-century folly by Matthew Brettingham. For more information see the National Trust website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-petworthhouse.htm
©Andy Potter
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©Stefan Czapski
Dist:0.1km<br/>The National Trust's Petworth House is surrounded by a 700 acre deer park landscaped by 'Capability' Brown. This is one small part of it, close to the car park.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.2km<br/>The track curves round to one of the Lodges on the A283. Further to the left are The Kennels.
©Dave Spicer
Dist:0.2km<br/>Mid-October, 2011, and the weather was warm and sunny by lunch-time, after a chilly, misty start.
©Stefan Czapski
Dist:0.2km<br/>There is something quite stern and forbidding about these buildings. My guess is that they date from the closing years of the 17th century, or the very beginning of the 18th - English classical architecture of that period didn't set out to charm in the way it did later in the 18th century. The green to the east of the A283 lies at a lower level than Petworth Park, hence the bank in the foreground.
©Stefan Czapski
Dist:0.2km<br/>The outer walls and gate lodges of Petworth Park can seem massive and forbidding. In this case, I'm puzzled by the two empty niches, each big enough to shelter a life-sized statue - or an armed guard. Seen from inside the park. For a view from outside, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2651136
©Stefan Czapski
Dist:0.2km<br/>A rather stern pair of gatehouses on the eastern side of the park, by the A283 - perhaps dating from the end of the 17th century, perhaps early 18th. You might imagine they guarded the entrance to a barracks, rather than a deer park. For a view from inside the park, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2651217
©Stefan Czapski
Dist:0.2km<br/>These stone cottages have ironstone pebbles in the mortar around the building stones. These add decoration as well as being more resistant to decay than the mortar. Beyond the houses are apple trees.
©Colin Smith
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©Arjen Bax
Dist:0.2km<br/>Children's play equipment can be seen here on this fine late winter day.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.2km<br/>The display of colours is exceptional this year as a result of a hot dry spell at the beginning of October.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.2km<br/>This public house is on the A283 at Petworth.
©Shazz

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