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Rode Hall, near the village of Scholar Green, is the home of the Baker Wilbraham family, Baronets of Loventor, who have owned it since 1669. The house dates from the early 18th century and the grounds that surround it were landscaped by Humphry Repton. This photograph is of Rode Pool, which is a mile long and covers an area of some 40 acres. It was constructed between 1800 and 1810 by John Webb, to a design by Repton. The small island is called Birthday Island and is home to a colony of herons.
Rode Hall is a beautiful early eighteenth century country house with a fine collection of porcelain and extensive gardens set in a Repton landscape.
Home to the Wilbraham family since 1669, the extensive grounds boast a woodland garden, formal garden designed by Nesfield in 1860, a stunning two acre walled kitchen garden, which provides produce for the farmers' market and tearooms and a new Italian garden.
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Opposite the south wall is a tablet of a very unusual design. It is dated 1633 and commemorates Mildred, wife of Sir William Lucklyn, who is shown looking out from a curtained recess with her head reclining on her right hand while her left hand is on an open book. Cherubs are holding back the curtains and two angels are depicted about to place a crown on her head.
We boast no virtues, and we beg no tears ; O reader ; if thou hast but eyes and ears, It is enough ; but tell me, why Thou com'st to gaze ? is it to pry Into our cost, or borrow A copy of our sorrow ? Or, dost thou come To learn to die, Not knowing whom To practise by ? If this be thy desire, Then draw thee one step nigher ; Here lies a precedent — a rarer Earth never shew'd ; nor Heaven a fairer. She was — but room forbids to tell thee what— Sum all perfection up, and she was — that.
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