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The cottages and the village life of rural England (1912)

Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930, Quinton, A.R · London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 206

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figyof an unknown knight. Perverse people continue to assert thathe must have been a Crusader, but it is well known that the factthat the figure is cross-legged bears no such signification. Andthen we examine the cross that stands where the main roads meet.It has been much restored, but it forms a… … LONG WITTENHAM, BERKS This beautiful cross stands in the little Berkshire village LongWittenham. It suffered from Puritan iconoclastic zeal and lost itshead; but it has now been restored. It is situated in the centre of thevillage, surrounded by a small green with some picturesque thatchedcottages…

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