text:  The Bandvale river runs through the park about three hundred yards from the front door and is crossed by two bridges in the direction of the lodges east and west; and beyond it rises the upland all dotted over with clumps of elm--and at the highest part of the park is the church; a great black figure kneeling on one knee used to bear up the sun-dial in the centre of the sweep--his leg had given way from the weight of years and the huge globe he supported and the poor old fellow lay on his back kicking up the stump of his leg in a most audacious manner in the very face of the sun