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... Night- In the Heart of 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 ...
... Night- In the Heart of 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 ...
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... Night on the Hills - The " Blowing- Stone " -Christmas Day on the Cotswolds — A Solar Halo Hamlet Festivities - Tom Peregrine Baffled ― The Mummers Play - The Victorian Era— The True Days of " Merrie England ” —Carpe Diem . Meteor ...
... Night on the Hills - The " Blowing- Stone " -Christmas Day on the Cotswolds — A Solar Halo Hamlet Festivities - Tom Peregrine Baffled ― The Mummers Play - The Victorian Era— The True Days of " Merrie England ” —Carpe Diem . Meteor ...
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... night he could have heard the murmuring waterfall amid a stillness only broken at intervals by the scream of the owl , the clatter of the goatsucker , or the weird barking of the foxes : for not two hundred yards from the house and ...
... night he could have heard the murmuring waterfall amid a stillness only broken at intervals by the scream of the owl , the clatter of the goatsucker , or the weird barking of the foxes : for not two hundred yards from the house and ...
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... night mists rise from off thy glassy face , be sure and drop a tear in silvery dew upon the moss - grown stone I know so well . And then pass on to Eton , fairest spot on earth . Mark well the playing - fields , the glorious trees , and ...
... night mists rise from off thy glassy face , be sure and drop a tear in silvery dew upon the moss - grown stone I know so well . And then pass on to Eton , fairest spot on earth . Mark well the playing - fields , the glorious trees , and ...
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... nights striding over the Cotswold uplands . If any one approach him , he hurries away in the opposite direction ; yet he is not queer in the head , but strong and in the prime of life . << Then there is that very common character " the ...
... nights striding over the Cotswold uplands . If any one approach him , he hurries away in the opposite direction ; yet he is not queer in the head , but strong and in the prime of life . << Then there is that very common character " the ...
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Ablington ancient ash tree 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 delight district doubtless earth England face Fairford farmers fields fish garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hand hounds hundred hunting keeper larvæ look lovely Lunnon manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges pass Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds river River Coln Roman Sairy Jane sausingers scent season seen shooting silvery song sport sportsman spring squire stand Stoke Poges stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns summer tell thou Tom Peregrine town trees trout stream turmut vale valley walk walls week whilst wild wind woods yards