Mirables

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Mirables ("fine prospect") is an English country house on the Isle of Wight in South East England. It was built by George Arnold of Ashby Lodge, Northamptonshire.^[1]

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were, and often still are, the full-time residence for the landed gentry that ruled rural Britain until the Reform Act 1832. Frequently, the formal business of the counties was transacted in these country houses.

Isle of Wight County and island of England

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel, between 2 and 5 miles off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the Solent. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known for its mild climate, coastal scenery, and verdant landscape of fields, downland and chines.

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. As with the other regions of England, apart from Greater London, the south east has no elected government.

Early history

The spot was originally chosen as a residence by George Arnold of Ashby Lodge, Northamptonshire, who added to the original cottage—one of the farmhouses of the area. The house was built in the cottage style and was enlarged at different periods. This has given it an irregular but not unpleasing appearance. It has one apartment which is adorned with pictures.^[1]

A cottage is, typically, a small house. It may carry the connotation of being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location.

A farmhouse is a building that serves as the primary residence in a rural or agricultural setting. Historically, farmhouses were often combined with space for animals called a housebarn. Other farmhouses may be connected to one or more barns, built to form a courtyard, or with each farm building separate from each other.

Grounds

The lawn declines to the shore, where there are boat houses. This lawn is surrounded by shrubbery, intersected by serpentine walks, and a small flower garden.^[2] Above Mirables the clift attains its greatest height, and displays all the varied strata in vertical succession, from the gault in the bank by the roadside, to the chalk in the down above, which here rises to a peak known as the High Hat.

A flower garden or floral garden is any garden where flowers are grown and displayed.

In geology and related fields, a stratum is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers. The "stratum" is the fundamental unit in a stratigraphic column and forms the basis of the study of stratigraphy.

A mountain is a large landform that rises above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or volcanism. These forces can locally raise the surface of the earth. Mountains erode slowly through the action of rivers, weather conditions, and glaciers. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in huge mountain ranges.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Edmund Venables , The Isle of Wight, a guide (1860)

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Edmund Venables (1819–1895) was an English cleric and antiquarian.

1 2 Cooke, William Bernard (1813). A new picture of the Isle of Wight: illustrated with twenty-six plates of the most beautiful and interesting views throughout the island, in imitation of the original sketches, drawn and engraved (Now in the public domain. ed.). Printed by and for T. Baker, and for Sherwood, Neely and Jones. pp. 94–. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
↑ Lloyd, David Wharton; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). The Isle of Wight. Yale University Press. pp. 218–. ISBN 978-0-300-10733-3 . Retrieved 7 July 2011.

Coordinates: 50°34′54″N1°16′05″W / 50.58164°N 1.26812°W / 50.58164; -1.26812

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[Cooke1813-1] 1 2 Cooke, William Bernard (1813). A new picture of the Isle of Wight: illustrated with twenty-six plates of the most beautiful and interesting views throughout the island, in imitation of the original sketches, drawn and engraved (Now in the public domain. ed.). Printed by and for T. Baker, and for Sherwood, Neely and Jones. pp. 94–. Retrieved 7 July 2011.

[LloydPevsner2006-2] Lloyd, David Wharton; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). The Isle of Wight. Yale University Press. pp. 218–. ISBN 978-0-300-10733-3 . Retrieved 7 July 2011.

Mirables

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