Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 82
the level of the ground, and very dirty. Justoutside the doorway stood the midden or Act was passed in the reign of Henry VII.(A. D. 1489) prohibiting the wholesale pullingdown of farms and cottages, many of whichmust have disappeared, or the order would nothave been necessary. Before the dawn of… … A ROW OF OLD STONE COTTAGES AT CASTLE COMBE heap of refuse, and in rainy weather pesti-lential matter festered there and drained intothe village brook and dip-holes. No won-der that the Black Death and oft recurringplagues found congenial homes in such insani-tary dweUings. There was a great…
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