"Nevertheless when Lord Stanley (afterward head
of the Derby-Disraeli Administration) paid his first
visit to Hughenden in January, 1851 (not a good sauntering month, certainly), Disraeli's own record is as
follows: "Stanley's visit to Hughenden was very agreeable.
Having no horses" - a proviso which might mollify
even a Lord Eldon - "we took long walks together -
one day to Hampden; another to the Abbey. The view
of Hughenden across the heights is quite marvelous.
I had never seen it before. We walked to Denver
Hill and its sylvan neighborhood; and on Sunday,
after church, we walked on the hills in view of Dashwood's Park, till me got to Westcombe Church." Disraeli had then for three years been the unexploring owner of Hughenden."
Extract from "Benjamin Disraeli" (Open Library)
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