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Buxton - An Aerial View of the Town

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"The principal range of buildings... is the fine Crescent, erected about 1780 by the Duke of Devonshire, from designs by Carr, of York. It is built of stone, and has a front, including the two wings, of nearly 320 feet in length. The architecture is partly of the Doric order. This stately pile includes three large hotels, a ball-room, library, baths, lodging-houses, &c. Behind the Crescent are the spacious stables, now converted into a hospital, and in front are shrubberies and pleasant walks laid out on a hill."

[Extract from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (Buxton, 1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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