People still come from afar to see the oaks of Chaldicotes, and to hear their feet rustle among the thick autumn leaves.

But they will soon come no longer.

The giants of past ages are to give way to wheat and turnips; a ruthless Chancellor of the Exchequer, disregarding old associations and rural beauty, requires money returns from the lands; and the Chace of Chaldicotes is to vanish from the earth's surface.
Some part of it, however, is the private property of Mr.Sowerby, who hitherto, through all his pecuniary distresses, has managed to save from the axe and the auction-mart that portion of his paternal heritage.

The house of Chaldicotes is a large stone building, probably of the time of Charles the Second.

It is approached on both fronts by a heavy double flight of stone steps.