Terrier of the Downton Estate

Item date: 1780
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 5,000
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire

Terrier compiled for Richard Payne Knight by James Sherriff, a land agent and landscape gardener, based in Birmingham. The volume contains 41 plans, all but one on vellum, with accompanying text. As frontispiece there is a pen and wash drawing of the newly completed castle showing the south west approach and one of the new bridges; this is illustrated at p.42 of AR