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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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n-tinued to be a favourite resort of artists both American andother. Among the old houses besides the Lygon, the mostinteresting is the fourteenth century grange of the abbey ofPershore; it had fallen into decay, but has been rescuedin time, and repaired in good taste, and now forms acomfortable private residence. Long ago the attractionsof the London road drew the village away from the vicinity ofits parish cburch. This church lies a mile away to thesouth beside a streamlet which here descends from thehills. It is a fine cruciform twelfth century structure withtransition-Norman arcades, and a chancel and transepts of laterdate. The space beneath the tower was the chancel of theoriginal church. The interior being used for service only onsummer Sunday afternoons has a somewhat deserted air, butfor that very reason it has escaped the clutches of the EarlyVictorian restorer, and may look forward without fear to thefuture. The patron .saint is St. I^adburgh, a daughter ofEdward the Elder.
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IVilh-rsey. 224 BUCKLAND ch, ix A charming field path to the right will take you to Buckland,whence you may wander on along the slopes of the hills toStanton and Stanway, and even further to Hayles and Sudeley,and a day or two may well be devoted to a ramble along thisdelightful hillside, with its constant variations of woodedcoombe and upland meadow, and its outlook across the broadvale of Evesham to the distant hills beyond. The villagesjust mentioned are all secluded and unspoilt, and for twoor three centuries have worn much the same aspect that theydo to-day ; but a time of probation is approaching, the newrailway will soon be open—and then? But I will not fore-stall the date of grief; they are all built of the good local stoneand are built to last. To begin with Buckland, bookland that is—a common nameenough—in this case it was the abbey of Gloucester that heldit by charter or book—and to speak only of the church, themanor house and the rectory. From 1466 to 1510 the rect

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