3-077-658 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Belvoir Castle: footpath leading to the Castle, 1890. Estate in Leicestershire, seat of the Duke of Rutland. 'Many historians have written enthusiastically of this lordly site - well-named Belvoir, though ill-spelt by old writers Belvar, Bever, Beauvoir, and varied by them into Belvidere, Belloviso, and Bellovero. (I need hardly note that it seems always to have been pronounced in one way - Bever.) Burton says: "It stands upon the top of a very lofty hill, containing from the foot to the top about two hundred steps; yielding every way a most delicious and pleasing prospect, being accounted one of the best prospects in the land. I have often viewed this castle...with the help of a perspective glass, the distance of thirty-two miles".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.