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Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
Subjects: King Street, Knutsford
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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high. It is said to have inclosed that portion of the town in which the Jews were permitted to live. Richard II. died in Leicester,and his stone coffin was afterwards used as a watering trough in front of the old Blue Boar Inn. From Leicester we jogged along leisurely to Rugby, whose famous school, the pride of England, dates back to 1547, and which now has about 450 students. Unfortunately it was vacation time, so we had no chance to see the boys at work and play. From here we went to Leamington, another of the popular English watering places which has a number of springs of as diversified analysis as those at Saratoga. We found most comfortable accommodations at the Manor House, a pleasant, homelike place surrounded by an attractive garden, with a pro-fusion of roses. Almost adjoining Leamington is Warwick and its castle which dates back to the Saxon times, and about five miles distant are the grand old ruins of the grander Kenilworth. These two historic spots have been described a million
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From Chester to Southampton
times, more or less, and I shall not attempt to add anything to what has been said. This also is true of Stratford-on-Avon, at which place we stopped for an hour, continuing thence directly to Oxford, putting up at the Clarendon Hotel and spending some time in visiting the most noted of Oxfords twenty-one colleges, at which there are three thousand students.Beyond Oxford we entered the valley of the Thames and followed the famous river to Reading. We made no stop here but went on to Winchester, reaching the George Hotel there in time for dinner. This city is one of great antiquity and is the seat of a magnificent cathedral. It is said that after the Norman Conquest this town rivaled London in commercial importance but a conflagration in 1141 impeded its progress for so long a time that the present metropolis left it far in the rear commercially. After visiting the cathedral the morning after our arrival and spending several hours about this quaint, sleepy old town we regre

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