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Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)

Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 114

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EWPORT hills in mid-Oxfordshire. All the cottages arebuilt of a local stone which has turned toa grey yellow or rich ochre, and are either steeply thatched,or roofed withthinnish slabs ofthe same yellow-ish grey stone,about the size ofslates and calledby the vulgarslats. The dia-mond-paned win-dows… … ;^s;l3SLrs^y!^?^;g^^:g?^y* L. 4.L CORNER HOUSE AT LAYCOCK slate or red brick. Honeysuckle, roses,clematis, ivy, japonica, beautify the cottagewalls, in front of which are bright, well-kept flower gardens behind trim hedges.The old stocks still stand on the villagegreen, as they stood when Lord…

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