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... 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 . Oman's Discovery - Burford during the Civil ...
... 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 . Oman's Discovery - Burford during the Civil ...
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... town of Chepstow and the silvery Wye , as we left them be- hind us , was fine enough ; but who can describe the magnificent panorama presented by the wide Severn at low tide ? Yellow sands , glittering like gold in the dazzling sunshine ...
... town of Chepstow and the silvery Wye , as we left them be- hind us , was fine enough ; but who can describe the magnificent panorama presented by the wide Severn at low tide ? Yellow sands , glittering like gold in the dazzling sunshine ...
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... town and country are blended into one , and everything is clean and fresh and picturesque . The abbey church , as you view it from the top of the market - place , has a charm unsur- passed by any other sacred building in the land . In ...
... town and country are blended into one , and everything is clean and fresh and picturesque . The abbey church , as you view it from the top of the market - place , has a charm unsur- passed by any other sacred building in the land . In ...
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... town of Cirencester some seven long miles behind me , with wearied limbs I sought this quiet , sequestered spot . Suddenly , as I was wondering how amid these never ending hills there could be such a place as I had been told existed , I ...
... town of Cirencester some seven long miles behind me , with wearied limbs I sought this quiet , sequestered spot . Suddenly , as I was wondering how amid these never ending hills there could be such a place as I had been told existed , I ...
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... town of Cirencester , too , affords many historical remains of the same era . But it is to the part which English hands and hearts have played towards beautifying the Cotswold district that I would fain direct attention ; to the stately ...
... town of Cirencester , too , affords many historical remains of the same era . But it is to the part which English hands and hearts have played towards beautifying the Cotswold district that I would fain direct attention ; to the stately ...
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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