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Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, which has been the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years.
The first recorded building on the site of Wilton House was a priory founded by King Egbert circa 871. Through the munificence of King Alfred, the priory was granted lands and manors until it became wealthy and powerful. However, by the time Wilton Abbey was dissolved in the Dissolution of the Monasteries set in motion by King Henry VIII, its prosperity was already on the wane. Following the seizure of the abbey, Henry presented it and its attached estates to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (in the 1551 creation) c. 1544.
The present Grade I listed house is the result of rebuilding after a 1647 fire, although a small section of the house built for William Herbert survives; alterations were made in the early 19th and early 20th centuries. The house stands in gardens and a park which are also Grade I listed. While still a family home, the house and grounds are usually open to visitors during the summer months.
Taken while waiting for the sun to set next to Germasogeias Dam in Limassol during those long days of summer
It was a fine house with a wide porch on which to sit and survey the land. The fence once marked the edge of the yard but has no purpose now.
Happy Fence Friday!
My Little House
by J. M. Westrup
I have a little house
With windows and a door,
Two chimneys on the top,
And a plot of grass before.
I have a little house,
With curtains and a blind,
Two chimneys on the top,
And a plot of grass behind.
I have a little house,
Where I go in and out,
Two chimneys on the top,
And a garden all about.
The Powder house was an unloading point for gunpowder to be used in the North Wales Slate Quarries. It sits at the mouth of the Glaslyn estuary where it meets the Irish Sea.
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Tree by the door of a red house.
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A plain brown bird with an effervescent voice, the House Wren is a common backyard bird over nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. Listen for its rush-and-jumble song in summer and you’ll find this species zipping through shrubs and low tree branches, snatching at insects. House Wrens will gladly use nestboxes, or you may find their twig-filled nests in old cans, boots, or boxes lying around in your garage.