view of the New Inn, where company coming to see the house may receive every accommodation.

The East Lodge; a building of simple and elegant architecture, by Wyatt; from hence to the N.W. is an extensive view of the rich, well wooded, and highly cultivated grounds of the park.

Gardens. The kitchen garden, including the outer belt, contains eight acres. The principal part is divided into three squares of one acre each, the lesser part contains two compartments of one acre each. The extent of walling comprises upwards of 1400 yards in length, and 14 feet in height, well covered with fruit trees. In the middle square are two mulberry trees, which, as they are so generally admired, may be here mentioned. The extent of one is 30 yards, and the other 27, in a fine and healthy state. The vinery, which perhaps is the finest in England, is deserving the inspection of strangers. The hot-houses and forcing frames are also deserving notice.

The Pleasure Grounds, to the east of the mansion, are tastefully laid out. A fine gravel walk winding through clumps of trees, and shrubs of various kinds, interspersed with many a lovely flower, beguiles the footsteps of the wandering stranger while passing through this wilderness of sweets.

Mr. Coke's establishment upon the whole is princely. He has sat in several parliaments with little intermission; his annual sheep-shearing at Holkham is respectably attended, when the doors of hospitality and science are thrown open, not to those of rank and fortune only, but to all who are competent to receive or communicate improvements in agriculture.

In a word, to visit Holkham with advantage, the STRANGER'S GUIDE to HOLKHAM, containing a description of the paintings, statues, &c. of Holkhamhouse, also an account of the park, gardens, &c. &c., compiled by J. Dawson, and printed at Burnham 1817,

ought to be viewed as an indispensable accompaniment. The various statues, bustoes, paintings, &c. &c., are not only enumerated in this little work as they are arranged in the different apartments, but the subjects are ably illustrated by historical and classical remarks; and the whole divested of the errors of former accounts, occasioned by the recent changes and improvements in this noble seat.

Holkham House is open for general inspection on Tuesdays only, except to foreigners and artists. Strangers or travellers who wish to view the house on other days can only do so by particular application to Mr. Coke, who has never refused his permission.

Before concluding our present excursion we must notice a few places to the right of New Walsingham; the first of these is

BINHAM. In the year 1738, Mr. Samuel Buck published a print of the ruins of Binham priory, and its collegiate church, great part of the west end of which was then standing. Excepting the west front, the whole is supposed to belong to the early style of Norman architecture. The original structure was raised in the reign of Henry I. The nave and north aisle have been used many years as the parish church, and at the west end is a handsome font. There are three tiers of seven arches on each side of the nave; the uppermost partly pointed and partly semicircular, the lowermost semicircular. The exterior of the western front is wholly in the pointed style, containing, in the lower part, a grand central and two side door-ways, with blank arcades between them; and over the former is a large centre window, which has been highly ornamented with mullions and tracery.

WAREHAM is about two miles from Binham, at a small distance from Stiffkey, and here is the seat of Sir Martin Browne Folkes, bart. This has been deemed one of the most beautiful situations in

Norfolk. The house stands on the brow of a gently rising hill, being protected from the north, east, and west, with very fine plantations, of many years growth, in the form of a crescent. The south opens on a delightful winding vale, affording a view of several villages and churches, and a large piece of water, which is lost in a grove. Nothing can be more picturesque than these and the view that breaks upon the traveller passing through the dark fir-wood, on his approach from London; hence the shady plantations about the house form a fine contrast with the brilliancy of the landscape in general. Turning to the right, an inclosure breaks into the plantations; this is fringed with open wood, that half obscures the village of Wareham, scattered thickly with trees; and Wareham steeples, one peeping over the thick plantations near the house, and the other, more open, complete the view-excepting that, full to the left, is the large Danish camp of Sweno, including about nine acres, with ramparts thirty feet high, the whole being nearly of a circular form. In the town of Wareham was a chapel, with its cemetery or yard, which, previous to the Dissolution, belonged to the nunnery of Bradholme.

STIFFKEY is about two miles to the right of Wareham. Here is Stiffkey Hall, which having been several years in a ruinous state is occupied by a farmer. The house still presents some circular towers, &c, and was built by Sir Nicholas Bacon, knt., Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal in the time of Queen Elizabeth. The arms are on the gateway, and the date is 1604. The west front with two embrasured towers present more uniformity than most houses built at that period. Situated in the bottom of a sequestered vale, environed with lofty trees, and a stream slowly meandering by the side casts an additional gloom over the dilapi dated mansion. The hills around rise in a bold manner,