Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 83
remore profitable than the growing of corn. An mand for cottages. The abbeys were pillagedof their lands, and the great landlords whoobtained the fair acres of the monasteries,required men to till their estates. Hencethere was a great increase in cottage buildingin the sixteenth century, and an… … A COTTAGE DOORWAY NEAR SEEND Strange Survivals—Geology and Variations in Style our scenery. There is no vain pretensionabout them. They are not like some mod-ern villa which masquerades as a castleand calls itself Huntingdon Towers, orCastlethorpe, or Dovecote Abbey. Thereis nothing of that about…
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