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... building , with its carved pinnacles , its warped gables , its mullioned casements and dormer windows , the old oak within , the very inglenook by the great fireplace where the old folks used to sit at home , the ivy trailing round the ...
... building , with its carved pinnacles , its warped gables , its mullioned casements and dormer windows , the old oak within , the very inglenook by the great fireplace where the old folks used to sit at home , the ivy trailing round the ...
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... building , surrounded by such a wealth of stately trees as you will see nowhere else . The Thames runs practically through the grounds . What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom ...
... building , surrounded by such a wealth of stately trees as you will see nowhere else . The Thames runs practically through the grounds . What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom ...
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... buildings are their antiquity and Gothic quaintness . The air is sharp and bracing , and the climate , as is inevitable on the shallow , porous soil of the oolite hills , wonderfully dry and invigorating . " Lands of gold have been ...
... buildings are their antiquity and Gothic quaintness . The air is sharp and bracing , and the climate , as is inevitable on the shallow , porous soil of the oolite hills , wonderfully dry and invigorating . " Lands of gold have been ...
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... building in the land . In what that charm lies I have often wondered . Is it the marvellous symmetry of the whole ... build- ings as on the hills , and could believe that God had done a greater work in breathing into the narrowness of ...
... building in the land . In what that charm lies I have often wondered . Is it the marvellous symmetry of the whole ... build- ings as on the hills , and could believe that God had done a greater work in breathing into the narrowness of ...
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... buildings , but all were ivy clad and time worn . The very trees themselves appeared to be laden with a mantle of ivy that was more than they could bear . Many a tall fir , from base to topmost twig , was completely robed with the ...
... buildings , but all were ivy clad and time worn . The very trees themselves appeared to be laden with a mantle of ivy that was more than they could bear . Many a tall fir , from base to topmost twig , was completely robed with the ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree beautiful Berkshire Bibury birds Burford BURFORD PRIORY catch Chedworth church Cirencester CIRENCESTER HOUSE Coln colour Cotswold district Cotswold Hills Cotswold village cottages covert cricket deep delightful district doubtless earth England Fairford farmers feet fields fish gallop garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hand Hatherop horse hounds hundred hunting huntsman keeper killed large number larvæ Lechlade Loch Leven London look Lord lovely manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges passed Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds ride river River Coln Roman sausingers scent season seen Shakespeare shooting silvery sport sportsman spring squire stand stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns tell thou town trees trout stream vale valley wall week whilst wild wind wolds woods yards