phens family. Further north is the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, standing in Roehampton Park, a spacious
Gothic edifice, and opposite is the Rookery, alongside of which runs a
lane through beautiful meadows past Putney House into Putney Park Lane.
Towards Barnes, in Roehampton Lane, standing in wide grounds, are
several family mansions, of which Lower Grove House, Subiaco Lodge,
Ellenborough House, and Roehampton Lodge, are some of the best known.
The new polo club, which it is prophesied by its originators will
outshine Hurlingham and Ranelagh, has its grounds between Priory and
Roehampton Lanes at their northern ends.

Roehampton Lane runs into Upper Richmond Road at its junction with Lower
Richmond Road. Barnes Common, one of the prettiest of the bits of wild
land near London, is rather cut up by the railroad. To the London
boundary in the west, that is the Priests' Bridge over Beverley Brook,
the road runs between hedges most of the way, but near the bridge are a
few cottages and small shops. The Manor House stands at the junction of
the upper and lower roads, and wears an air of solidity, compared with
its newer neighbours nearer town. It faces a small angle of lawn, backed
by a hedge of rhododendrons, and is a plain, square, two-story dwelling
with a porch, flanked by greenhouses; the walls are hidden behind ivy
that climbs to the tiled roof. East of the Manor House rows of red-brick
cottages on the north side stretch to Dyers Lane, and opposite is Putney
Park Avenue, with its small cottages closely built; there are fields
before Putney Park Lane which is lined with tall Scotch firs. Workmen
digging here disclose the depth of fine sand and gravel which underlies
all this region and gives it such perfect surface drainage. A gate
marked "Private" leads into Putney Park Lane, and passing south under an
avenue of magnificent elms, with the remains of orchards and
market-gardens to the east and rolling fields to the west, we pass
Putney Park House, and beyond a nurseryman's gardens see the Granard
Presbyterian Church, a stone church with slated spire, standing at the
corner of the lane that leads across the fields and past orchards and
market-gardens to Howard's Lane. Westward from the church another lane
leads through pleasant meadows, with beautiful views of the mansions
that lie back from the roads, and comes out at the convent in Roehampton
Lane. Towards Putney Heath two large houses are seen--Granard Lodge in
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