A Cotswold Village, Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire |
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... land of golden sunshine and silvery trout streams , the land of breezy uplands and valleys nestling under limestone hills , where the scream of the railway whistle is seldom heard and the smoke of the factory darkens not the long summer ...
... land of golden sunshine and silvery trout streams , the land of breezy uplands and valleys nestling under limestone hills , where the scream of the railway whistle is seldom heard and the smoke of the factory darkens not the long summer ...
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... land , though here and there a tiny village with its square - towered Norman church peeps out from an oasis of green fields and stately elm trees . On the right the Chiltern Hills are seen in the background , and Wittenham Clump stands ...
... land , though here and there a tiny village with its square - towered Norman church peeps out from an oasis of green fields and stately elm trees . On the right the Chiltern Hills are seen in the background , and Wittenham Clump stands ...
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... Lands of gold have been found , and lands The Thames Valley-The Old White Horse-Enter- ing the Cotswolds.
... Lands of gold have been found , and lands The Thames Valley-The Old White Horse-Enter- ing the Cotswolds.
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Joseph Arthur Gibbs. " Lands of gold have been found , and lands of spices and precious merchandise ; but this is the land of health . " Thus wrote Richard Jefferies of the downs , and thus say we of the Cotswolds . And now our Great ...
Joseph Arthur Gibbs. " Lands of gold have been found , and lands of spices and precious merchandise ; but this is the land of health . " Thus wrote Richard Jefferies of the downs , and thus say we of the Cotswolds . And now our Great ...
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... land . The present occupants appeared to be an old man of some seventy years of age and his three sons . Keen sportsmen these , who dearly love to walk for hours in pursuit of game in the autumn , on the chance of bagging an occasional ...
... land . The present occupants appeared to be an old man of some seventy years of age and his three sons . Keen sportsmen these , who dearly love to walk for hours in pursuit of game in the autumn , on the chance of bagging an occasional ...
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