The County Never Looked Lovelier Than At This Moment, At
'the sweet o' the year." Like other Western counties, especially perhaps Herefordshire, it is singularly unspoilt by ugly roofs and the ugly delis-is of the motor-car. The......
First—and Worst—a Certain Number Of Bigger Country Houses...
given up, are being given up, and it is feared may remain empty. Whatever our political complexion, we must all acknowledge that the peculiar English beauty of the land owed......
A A A * The Best Walk.
If a foreigner who desired to walk England were to ask for an ideal trapse, is there any finer bit of country to suggesf than the uplands connecting the first five of the......
Country Life
THE REPUTE OF SOMF.RSF.T. The conscious individuality of the counties appears can- t* ally in fresh instances. In the forefront at the moment is Somerset, one of the loveliest......
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WESTERN FARMS. On the whole the West of England has suffered much less from depression than Eastern acres ; but one writer in The Somerset Countryman refers to derelict farms......
In A Very Excellent Book, Written Some Years Ago, Given
the Impressive title Food—that and no more—the counties are arranged in order of merit as judged by an admirer of intensive or semi-intensive cultivation. The author put......
Though You Do Not Find The Converted Country House Or
the country club in Somerset, you find more populous if less pic- turesque shrines of the cult of the country. Numbers of hostels for hikers and cyclists have been built.......
* * * * Bmds And Lighthouses.
It is good news that the Ulster Society for the Protection of Birds intends when possible to prevent the great loss of bird life at the lighthouses. The most lamentable......
In Two Other Counties, Cornwall And Warwickshire, Where I...
recently roamed, a successor has been found—and a most unexpected successor—in the railways. In different idioms residents have said to me, Thank Heaven for the railways "—in......
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