And why is it so foolish ? You would have
to know your country very well to answer.- It would be foolish, such was the essential point of the discussion, because you would be taking the valley people from their proper associates and putting them among the hill people. The two classes were as different as chalk from cheese. Their houses were different, their ways were different, especially the ways of the women, their interests were different, even their appearance was different. It was not argued that one was better or worse than the other, but that they were just different and therefore not naturally grouped together. Cotswold people do not go to Evesham : they " go down " to Evesham. Evesham itself is usually spoken of as " the Vale "—and, indeed, it is a vale " lovelier than all the valleys of Ionian hills." To the Evesham and Worcestershire valley group belongs Broadway, the fairest of all our villages in position and what may be called pattern, though inferior architecturally to such an incomparable neighbour as Chipping Campden.
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