It is situated, as the
reader has already been informed, at some five miles from the town of
Newcome; away from the chimneys and smoky atmosphere of that place, in a
sweet country of rural woodlands; over which quiet villages, grey church
spires, and ancient gabled farmhouses are scattered: still wearing the
peaceful aspect which belonged to them when Newcome was as yet but an
antiquated country town, before mills were erected on its river-banks,
and dyes and cinders blackened its stream. Twenty years since Newcome
Park was the only great house in that district; now scores of fine villas
have sprung up in the suburb lying between the town and park. Newcome New
Town, as everybody knows, has grown round the park-gates, and the New
Town Hotel (where the railway station is) is a splendid structure in the
Tudor style, more ancient in appearance than the park itself; surrounded
by little antique villas with spiked gables, stacks of crooked chimneys,
and plate-glass windows looking upon trim lawns; with glistening hedges
of evergreens, spotless gravel walks, and Elizabethan gig-houses.
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