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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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J The Wessex of To-day At sunset and at dawn the familiar noises of farm-yard and byre, which time leaves unaltered, come tothe wanderer in Wessex across the fertile vale of thegreat dairies, and stir to life in ones imaginationscenes not only from the Wessex of romances andnovels, but from that of the past. 41 3A CHAPTER III SOME TOWNS OF EAST WESSEX The larger towns of Wessex seem to group themselvesnaturally into those of the eastern, western, southern,and northern parts of the district ; and in many instancesthe towns in these particular groups are more or lessintimately connected by historical and other events. Wimborne, the first in the group of East Wessextowns, is situated in the picturesque and well-woodedvalley through which flow the two rivers, the Stour andthe Allen or Win, the former on the south and thelatter on the east side of the town. Wimborne is one of the old-ancient towns ofWessex which, of considerable importance in oldendays, has only of quite recent years regai

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