Stourhead House and Gardens. The house and 100 acres of outstanding landscaped garden are at the centre of a 2650 acre estate. You can wander through woodland, countryside and downland on a range of waymarked walks. Discover stunning vistas, temples, new plants and magnificent trees, all set around an enchanting lake. Popular attractions in Wessex, the ancient Saxon kingdom, within a day’s drive of Frome
The house and 100 acres of outstanding landscaped garden are at the centre of a 2650 acre estate. You can wander through woodland, countryside and downland on a range of waymarked walks. Discover stunning vistas, temples, new plants and magnificent trees, all set around an enchanting lake. Just 2½ miles from the garden is King Alfred’s Tower, a 50 m high triangular red brick folly. From the top you can enjoy magnificient views across the whole of Wessex.
Visit the Palladian mansion built in the 1720s and see the impressive interior featuring:
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The name “Shaddai” is a name of God chiefly in the Book of Job. Exodus 6:2-3 says it is how God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the Septuagint and other early translation “El Shaddai” was translated as “God Almighty”. We read:
May God Almighty [El Shaddai] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers.
Genesis 28:3
I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]: be fruitful and increase in number.
Genesis 35:11
By the Almighty [El Shaddai] who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts [shadayim] and of the womb.
Genesis 49:25
These imply that El Shaddai was a god of fertility and fruitfulness.
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The Victorian psychologist Francis Galton argued that, other things being equal, British monarchs ought to be very long-lived, because millions of people all over the world daily intoned the heartfelt mantra ’God Save the Queen’ (or King). Yet, he showed, if anything, they don’t live as long as other members of the wealthy and pampered aristocratic class.
