A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... Cottage Gardens- Witham -- At the Sign of the White Hart - The Kindness of Country People - How to discover Objects of Interest -- A Fruitless Expedition- ' Ghosts not kept here ' 36 CHAPTER IV . An Ancient Hall - Fine Cedars -
... Cottage Gardens- Witham -- At the Sign of the White Hart - The Kindness of Country People - How to discover Objects of Interest -- A Fruitless Expedition- ' Ghosts not kept here ' 36 CHAPTER IV . An Ancient Hall - Fine Cedars -
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... Cottages - A half - timbered Home . . 327 CHAPTER XIX . Rural Inns - A Clever Conceit in Words - An Old Water - mill- A Picture through a Photograph - Braintree - A Homelike Land The Pleasures of the Road - A Day's Drive across Country ...
... Cottages - A half - timbered Home . . 327 CHAPTER XIX . Rural Inns - A Clever Conceit in Words - An Old Water - mill- A Picture through a Photograph - Braintree - A Homelike Land The Pleasures of the Road - A Day's Drive across Country ...
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... and to complete the picture the white - headed miller himself , looking out at us from an odd slit of a window in the side of his rickety but picturesque structure . Then the first half - timbered cottage we came upon.
... and to complete the picture the white - headed miller himself , looking out at us from an odd slit of a window in the side of his rickety but picturesque structure . Then the first half - timbered cottage we came upon.
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James John Hissey. Then the first half - timbered cottage we came upon , how charming it seemed , with its tiny garden full of homely flowers , gay of colour and sweet of perfume , its leaden lattice windows ( all religiously closed , by ...
James John Hissey. Then the first half - timbered cottage we came upon , how charming it seemed , with its tiny garden full of homely flowers , gay of colour and sweet of perfume , its leaden lattice windows ( all religiously closed , by ...
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... cottages that form the tiny hamlet that so impressed us with its primitive picturesqueness and old - time look . One of these lowly cottages that does duty as a Post Office we noticed with pleasure had a thatched roof , THE LANGDON ...
... cottages that form the tiny hamlet that so impressed us with its primitive picturesqueness and old - time look . One of these lowly cottages that does duty as a Post Office we noticed with pleasure had a thatched roof , THE LANGDON ...
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altar-tombs ancient artist beauty Beccles Bramfield brass building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour comfortable cottage Cromer curious delightful discovered driving drove England English Essex farmstead Faulkbourne fresh gables grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered highwayman horses hostelry inns inscription interest journey KENTWELL HALL land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted London look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk Norfolk towns noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once ourselves painted passed past phaeton picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint quiet railway rain rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seemed side sketch spot Stalham stone strange street structure Suffolk thatched thing tion told tomb tourist tower town traveller trees village walls wayside weather whilst wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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