Country Life
BETWEEN the Wycombe-Oxford road and Abingdon occurs a slightly elevated belt of open corn-country overlooked by the twin mounds of Whittenham Clumps or, as the Celts called......
In The Garden One Thing Nobody In The Country Can
help noticing about our con- ' temporary civilisation ; not the fields but the roads that pass through them are of primary importance to it. It is vehicular, not agrarian ; the......
Corn-dollies
Just outside Stadhanapton in this area I saw three of these ricks in line, and each of them was crowned at the apex with a corn-dolly in the shape of a straw cross that swung......
A Winter Waxwing Paying A Visit To Frilford Heath, Five
miles west of Oxford, I was just too - late to see a waxwing, a rare and sporadic winter visitor, so named from the curious knobs tipping the shafts of the secondary feathers......
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