This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of Lincoln and London, a Bishop of Sodor and Man and Lichfield, a Provost of Queen's College, Cambridge, an Irish Bishop and Dean, a Senior Wrangler who became one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, an Admiral of the White, and many Fellows of University distinction. Before entering the village we leave the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of Lincoln and London, a Bishop of Sodor and Man and Lichfield, a Provost of Queen's College, Cambridge, an Irish Bishop and Dean, a Senior Wrangler who became one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, an Admiral of the White, and many Fellows of University distinction. Before entering the village we leave the main road and turn up to the right unto the steep breast of the Bampton Common called the Howe, for we are bound for the 'world's end, ' and the 'world's end' lies two miles away to the westward. Never did grey rock stand up more picturesquely from close cropped turf, nor the golden gorse shine more brightly to the right and left as we slowly panted up an almost impracticable way. A gill that brings sweet music from far-off Bampton Fell comes leaping down on our left, and beyond the gill is a dark plantation that, nobody knows why, is called Ireland Wood. When we reach the top of the level common, white with its flock of geese, we must needs call a halt to gaze down into that beautiful Bampton valley we are leaving. We cannot wonder that every year, in gipsy encampment fashion, there come to this common tent-loving tourists, who have lack of accommodation at the Mill Crags Farm close by, and are content to sleep beneath the canvas so that at dawn they may bathe in the gill, and look out upon the Knipe Moor Crags that the Druids knew. The old Mill Crags Farm is left behind, and we essay a rocky farm-yard road that struggles upwards still. Close by the gate that leads from the common is a stone that tells of the pilgrims to Shap Abbey, or pack-horse men and pillion riders, who here gave thanks for a safe passage in wild times over wild fells. The gate is called Christ's gate, and a cross once rose from the boulder stone hereby. There was perhaps an..
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