Sherborne Abbey Church
Beautiful Britain
Wessex
ByCharles G Harper
London Adam & Charles
Black
Soho Square W
1911
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PREFACE
This is a modest, gossipy and allusive sketch of adelightful part of England, designed rather toarouse the interest and the curiosity of those notalready acquainted with what I will call the“Middle West” than to fully satisfy it. If inthis connection you choose to regard the authorof these pages as a commercial traveller in theinterest of Wessex, displaying samples of thepicturesque wares the West of England can offerthe tourist, it will entirely fit the humour inwhich they were penned. To aid the medium ofwords is added a feast of colour in the accompanyingselected views, which show the lovely goldenrusset interior of Sherborne Abbey, the mistyrich blue haze of Blackmore Vale, the architecturalmajesty of Wells, and much else thatawaits the traveller in Dorset and Somerset.
C. G. H.
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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Wareham—Bere Regis—The Heaths | 5 |
| II. | Corfe Castle—Swanage | 12 |
| III. | Woolbridge House-Culworth Cove—Owermoigne—Weymouth | 16 |
| IV. | “Under the Greenwood Tree”—Dorchester—Maiden Castle—Bridport—West Bay | 24 |
| V. | Cerne Abbas—The Vale of Blackmore—Sherborne—Shaftesbury | 34 |
| VI. | Yatton—Cheddar Cheese and Cheddar Cliffs—Wells—Glastonbury—The Isle of Athelney—Dunster | 43 |
| VII. | Norton St. Philip—Bath—Corsham—Castle Combe | 54 |
| Index | 63 |
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