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I . . Friar;: Park, the stately ml\nsion of. the ' late Sir
Frank Crlsp, is known fa.r and ,,;ide as on'e of ,the mo~t
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well~known auctIoneers, ' o~ ' R eading, Henley and
Basingst4ke, are submitting the property for public
.a.uction in, July next.
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'Chilterns, commands an qxtensive yiew of . the Thames
. Valley, and is surrounded, by 75. acres of beautiful
par~-IQ.nd,. Built in ' 1896:, i~ is 0I.1e ,of .t~e a~chiteC:tur.al
." -features of the county, while ~he ' mterlOr "1S eqUlpped ' \
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,.' Friar P 4rk is , so celebrated , 'I'he estate; wa.g once.
. d escribed. a·s "a ~ witty IKew," wil,ile another visitor
, ?haracterised it ,ns U a , ~jC?ke!. a goOd joke, r a li~erar.y
.:: loke, and a very beautiful loke.", In on~ ~tlOn \18
.- .w~'t ap)'Hlars at fir~t glance to be a .tret~1' of water,
but i. 'I' reality only an I optical i11U.i~DI "hile .. in
a.n her lcorner. is a mo,\ntam stream WhICh can .be
tur?oo ob and ]off by means of. a- tap,
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fea1iore of the estate. Over 22,000 ton·s. of Millstone
Grit wer~ brought f~om yhrkshire1for its cOnstruction,
andl it inbludes a representation of the Matterhorn, at
the sumrhit of which is a piecd of. rock taken from the
'very top of the mountain Itself, I' s() accurately haa .the
min~ature mounta.in been ,designed Ithat the ordinary
route adopted by tOurists and tJw.:..,spot Jwhere the
'acc,'aent occurred in ' 1865 can be easily recognised .
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found in, the Caves, which are ~ve m number. Thea.s
are J U ·V ine" Ca.ve. adorned. . WIth glass ·1~uDc~e~ tof
various colours holdmg electr:1c Jamps; the ! j Wlshmg' Vell" p'ave, the n Skeleton " . , ~aye" wi~h ~ rep·re~en.
.ta.ti~>n 9f a. skeleton reflected 10 a. 'most I my.s~~n;10u8
manner' thel " . IlIusion" Cave, where the VISitor . IS
• S:~rtled' by ~n loptical il}uaion by means, pf which a
F rlnr'R head Jt changed, appa~en~ty from bfe to ;death;
a;n~ the II ?nome" Oave. . .
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the park, ! incl\ide Japanese, Her~aceous, Elizt1.bethan'l
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