The Cleve - Rockwell Green, Wellington
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The Cleve - Rockwell Green, Wellington
Image: © Sarah Smith Taken: 30 Jan 2011
The Cleve, now a country club and hotel, was originally built in 1864 by Alfred Waterhouse, a prominent Victorian architect. He later designed the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London. The house was built for Joseph Hoyland Fox and his family, a former chairman of Fox Brothers, the woollen manufacturing firm in Wellington. When Joseph was a young man he used to walk to the Tonedale factory across the fields or occasionally ride in the carriage using only one horse as he did not like ostentation being a Quaker. The architect also came from a Quaker family.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.973619
Longitude
-3.241362