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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 70

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Sussex, Kent, and elsewhere, houses built of timber are the mostusual. In Cheshire, Shropshire, and Herefordshire there is thatbeautiful, soft, warm sandstone of which Chester Cathedral andmany a less important edifice are constructed; and as timberwas plentiful there also we find those picturesque… … FARMHOUSE, WELFORD-ON-AVON, GLOUCESTER Welford-on-Avon, Shakespeares Avon, boasts of many goodcottages with thatched roofs and dormer windows. It has a finechurch and a grand old lych-gate, and there a may-pole stands,the successor of a very ancient one, around which the villagersdanced in the days…

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