I live in the wonderful part of England called the Cotswolds, in a National Trust house called Newark Park. Newark was built as a hunting lodge and was completed around 1550. In the 18th century the architect James Wyatt made it into a four square house. The house sits in 700 acres of unspoiled countryside with far-reaching views to the southwest. Around 1550 Sir Nicholas Poyntz completed work to his new hunting lodge high on a ridge above the town of Wotton-Under-Edge. The name Newark derives from the words 'new work'. Poyntz built the lodge in a style early for C16th; indeed houses in England were not to benefit from this architectural style till some thirty years later. The lodge was used as a resting place after a full days hunting, with the hunting party returning to the main house (the Poyntz family house was Acton Court (English-Heritage), Iron Acton Nr Bristol, some ten miles from Newark) the following day.