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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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len takes us to Pinbury. The house, as I havealready said, was the residence of the younger Sir RobertAtkyns, and therefore in all probability the place where hisbook was A\Titten: sober and quiet, with its gables and highpitched roof rising against a dark background of trees, we feelat once that it is an ideal retreat for a student, and that it musthave made a congenial home for one who was devoting thelabours of his best days to the antiquities of his native county.In the old days there had been a house of nuns here, and themagnificent yew avenue in the grounds, said to contain thetallest yews in England, still bears the appropriate name of theNuns Walk. As for the name, Icnda, King of Mcrcia, invaded Wessexabout the year 628, and if, as is asserted, it was here that hepitched his most southern camp, the transition from Pendaburghto Pcnbury or Pinbury is easy. r)iir way to Cirencester, which I shall henceforth take leaveto si)ell Ciceter, in accordance with the neglected but ancient
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Cahitsden. Tlie Village Cross. 334 CICETER IN SIGHT CH. xin and established pronunciation, takes us to Park Corner, wherethe inn once stood at which Wildgoose and Tugwell, on theirtramp from Gloucester to Bath, fell in with Lord Bathurstsfriendly and hospitable keeper. For their exploits on thisoccasion, their sojourn at the old Gothic building in thePark, which his Lordship used to say he could have built asold again, if he had had a mind, and their encounter with thelearned Virtuoso, together with the dissertation of the latter onthe advantages of antiquarian pursuits, I must refer the curiousreader to the Fourth Book of Mr. Gravess Comic Romance.There is no inn for us at Park Corner now, but another halfdozen miles will bring us safely to our destination. The roadtraverses a delightful, heathy and woodland tract, and thendrops down to Daglingworth, where we are on familiar groundonce more. Wq soon join Ermin Street at the well-knowncorner, and now the beacon tower of Ciceter, loomi

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