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 284
the monasteries the sleepy old towns of the Cotswolds wereprosperous clothing centres. In the churches there are memorialsof worthy merchants and woolmen; and evidences of the bountyof the clothiers are seen in restored and rebuilt churches, incharities and almshouses. As one of them piously… … LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND so built in order to give light to the weavers as they worked attheir looms. They remain still at the old-world village of Kersey,which gave its name to a kind of cloth woven there, and of whichour artist gives a drawing. In the beautiful Stroud Valley thecloth trade lingers…
Architecture, Domestic · Villages
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