Severndroog Castle Vicinity, London SE18

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Severndroog Castle Vicinity, London SE18

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 3 May 2014

250 metres north-east of Rose Cottage, a former park-keeper's cottage near Severndroog Castle, Stoney Alley (ahead) passes the rear of some gardens that once belonged to Jackwood House. The house, now demolished, was originally called "Jack’s Wood". Its name was later changed to "Mayfield" and finally to "Jackwood House". Apparently Viscount Folkestone succeeded to the Earldom of Radnor during his tenure of Jackwood House, hence the Latin inscription on the basin of a non-functioning fountain that can be seen on the terrace behind the benches ahead, that reads: "D.D. IACOBUS COMES DE RADNOR 1873". The rose gardens on the other side of the terrace looked well tended and the surrounding area seemed well maintained in this otherwise 'wooded-and-grassed' area.

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51.465554
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0.061556