A Leisurely Tour in England

Chapter 26: FOOTNOTE

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About This Book

A writer undertakes a leisurely motor-car tour of rural England, favouring byways and loitering to encounter pastoral scenery, market towns, old coaching inns, churches, abbey ruins, moated houses and local characters. Travelogue chapters combine descriptive landscape sketches, antiquarian curiosities, epitaphs and anecdotes gathered at inns and villages, with reflections on maps, travel pace and the rewards of unplanned exploration. Photographs and drawings accompany route notes and observations on vanished customs, roadways and architectural details, offering a measured, anecdotal portrait of the countryside and its surviving historic features.

FOOTNOTE

[1] Since writing the above I noted the following paragraph in my morning paper: "A team of draught oxen in Sussex was disposed of near Lewes. The wooden yoke was purchased by the Mayor of Brighton for presentation to the Brighton Museum." A future generation may need the aid of a Commentator to understand the agricultural operations of to-day and the recent past.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

—Plain print and punctuation errors were corrected.

—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the front cover of the original book. The image is placed in public domain.