3-078-189 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

English Homes - No. XXIV. Audley End: view from the opposite side of the river, 1890. 'It is beautiful here in summer, when the great chestnuts that stand about the park and the elms that make avenues of the country roads are clad in green. Audley End is famous for its trees: here the flats of Essex are broken up with little hills and dales, and dark tree-lines edge the summits, and make a warm setting for the stately house, and the brown ancient village, and the neighbour-town of Saffron Walden...Across the stream of the Cam, fuller for the winter rains, with ducks swimming busily under the three-arched bridge of stone, there lies a broad white sheet of lawn, and behind it stands the great house, grey and many-windowed, among its trees'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.