Country Life
THE HISTORIC VILLAGE:
A group of English villagers were discussing the other day, in intervals of work, a meditated revolution in the loveliest of all the villages of England, and therefore, perhaps, of the world. What they said reeks of history older than they knew, cer- tainly older than the village itself. In the latest local govern- ment Act it is suggested that there should be a more logical arrangement of county and parish boundaries. As things are, bits of counties and parishes go astray and make narrow pro- montories, sometimes even islands in other counties, to the confusion of local organization. Among the discussed changes is the absorption of Broadway, now in Worcestershire, into Gloucester. The feeling of the county people thereabouts, not least on the Cotswolds themselves, is that such a change would be not only wrong, but silly. They are puzzled to know—at any rate this particular group were puzzled to know —how anyone could think of such a folly.
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