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... hundreds of other villages in England ; I seek only to record the simple annals of a quiet , old- fashioned Gloucestershire hamlet and the country within walking distance of ix PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ·
... hundreds of other villages in England ; I seek only to record the simple annals of a quiet , old- fashioned Gloucestershire hamlet and the country within walking distance of ix PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ·
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... England is more or less a mine of interest , and for such I have written . Realising my limitations , I have not gone deeply into any single subject ; my endeavour has been to touch on every branch of country life with as light a hand ...
... England is more or less a mine of interest , and for such I have written . Realising my limitations , I have not gone deeply into any single subject ; my endeavour has been to touch on every branch of country life with as light a hand ...
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... England . 153 CHAPTER IX . BURFORD , A COTSWOLD TOWN Curious Names - The Windrush - Burford Priory- An Empty Shell - The Kingmaker - Lord Falkland -Speaker Lenthall - Bibury Races - An Old Tradition - Valued Relics - Burford Church - Mr ...
... England . 153 CHAPTER IX . BURFORD , A COTSWOLD TOWN Curious Names - The Windrush - Burford Priory- An Empty Shell - The Kingmaker - Lord Falkland -Speaker Lenthall - Bibury Races - An Old Tradition - Valued Relics - Burford Church - Mr ...
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... England " -Carpe Diem . CHAPTER XVIIL WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN • A Glorious Panorama - Peregrine as Secretary - The Light of Setting Suns - Conclusion . GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN INDEX . APPENDIX . 381 411 · 419 · 425 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...
... England " -Carpe Diem . CHAPTER XVIIL WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN • A Glorious Panorama - Peregrine as Secretary - The Light of Setting Suns - Conclusion . GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN INDEX . APPENDIX . 381 411 · 419 · 425 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...
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... England . " Thus wrote Charles Kingsley forty years ago , when times were better for Berkshire farmers . But the same old fields and the same old hedges still remain - only we do not appreciate them as much as did the author of ...
... England . " Thus wrote Charles Kingsley forty years ago , when times were better for Berkshire farmers . But the same old fields and the same old hedges still remain - only we do not appreciate them as much as did the author of ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree barns beautiful Berkshire Bibury birds Burford BURFORD PRIORY charm Chedworth church Cirencester Coln colour Cotswold district Cotswold Hills Cotswold labourer Cotswold sheep Cotswold village cottages covert cricket deep delightful district doubtless earth England face Fairford farmers fields fish garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hounds hundred hunting keeper killed land larvæ London look lovely Lunnon manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges passed Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds quaint river River Coln Roman Sairy Jane sausingers scent season seen shillin's shooting silvery sport sportsman spring squire Stoke Poges stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns tell thou Tom Peregrine town trees trout stream turmut vale valley walls week whilst White Horse wild wind withybed wood yards