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UNTRODDEN ENGLISH WAYS


BY
HENRY C. SHELLEY


ASHORE FOR REPAIRS, ST. IVES

AUTHOR OF "LITERARY BY - PATHS IN OLD ENGLAND,"
"JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES," ETC.


CATFIELD STAITHE

With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour,
and Illustrations from Drawings by H. C. Colby
and from Photographs by the Author

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1908,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by
C. H. Simonds & Co.

Boston, U. S. A.

TO
WILLIAM E. HASKELL
IN SINCERE APPRECIATION OF
CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP

PREFACE

IN selecting a collective title for the following chapters it has been found impossible, at any rate by the author, to search out a collocation of words more comprehensive than the one which stands on the title page. That it is open to an objection is frankly admitted. By no license can Poets' Corner be described as "untrodden," and that adjective may also be inappropriate in one or two additional instances.

Nevertheless, and apart altogether from the plea which might be based on the fact that few books conform faithfully to their titles, it may be claimed that "Untrodden English Ways" accurately describes nine-tenths of the volume's contents. The best test of this will be for the reader to consider what measure of acquaintance he has with the various places described. He will know more of England than the average Englishman, and greatly exceed the knowledge of the most zealous tourist, if he can claim to have trodden many of these ways.

When a country has so ancient a history as England, it is inevitable that even its most neglected corners shall enshrine much of human interest. To the author those byways have always possessed a subtler charm than the highways of common knowledge. Hence the seeking out of the unusual attempted in these pages, a departure from convention which may, it is hoped, be justified by the results.

Perhaps it will be of service to the tourist to point out that the chapters are arranged in a geographical order, and that by starting at St. Ives in Cornwall it will be possible to follow these untrodden ways in easy sequence.

H. C. S.

CONTENTS


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Full-page Plates in Colour
ASHORE FOR REPAIRS, ST. IVES
BATH, FROM THE AVON
COOKHAM LOCK
COOKHAM, ON THE THAMES
MINSTER LOVEL, FROM THE MEADOWS

Full-page Plates
A ST. IVES STUDIO
AN EXHIBITION AT ST. IVES
ST. IVES' HARBOUR
GURNARD'S HEAD
ON A DEVON STREAM
A FARMHOUSE IN DEVON
COCKINGTON VILLAGE
SITE OF HYPOCAUST BATH
THE ROMAN BATHS
GRAVES OF JOHN KEBLE AND HIS WIFE
HURSLEY CHURCH
CEDARS OF LEBANON, OATLANDS
OLD PORTION OF OATLANDS MANSION
THE DOGS' CEMETERY, OATLANDS
POETS' CORNER, WESTMINSTER ABBEY
QUEEN ELIZABETH
QUEEN MARY
LORD NELSON
CHARLES II
THE CROMWELL VAULT
JOHN BUNYAN'S TOMB
COOKHAM CHURCH
CLIVEDEN WOODS
THE GRAVE OF LAURENCE STERNE
WHERE THACKERAY SLEEPS
HOGARTH'S GRAVE
THE ROSSETTI GRAVE
TURPIN'S RING, HEMPSTEAD
DICK TURPIN'S BIRTHPLACE
TURPIN'S OAK
THE GRAVE OF WALLER
HORNING FERRY
ON THE BURE
HARVEST IN THE BROADS
HOME FROM THE BROADS
WIND AND WATER MILLS OF THE FENS
CROWLAND ABBEY
GRETFORD HALL
WEST DEEPING CHURCH AND FONT
MINSTER LOVEL
LORD LOVEL'S TOMB
CARDINAL MANNING'S PULPIT
DR. ARNOLD'S PULPIT IN RUGBY CHAPEL
SHAKESPEARE'S SCHOOL
SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S SCHOOL
THE MANOR WELL
THE TOWN WELL
GATEHOUSE ON WARKWORTH BRIDGE
WARKWORTH CASTLE
WARKWORTH HERMITAGE
ON THE COQUET
THE SALOON, INVERARY
THE DUCHESS' BOUDOIR, INVERARY
FREW'S BRIDGE, INVERARY
INVERARY CASTLE

Illustrations in the Text
CATFIELD STAITHE
AN ARTIST PUPIL
CASTLE — AN — DINAS
A DEVON LANE
ENTRANCE TO KENT'S CAVERN
A CORNER OF THE BATHS
BATH ABBEY
HURSLEY VICARAGE
PRINCE HENRY OF OATLANDS
THE DUCHESS OF YORK
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
DANIEL DEFOE'S GRAVE
THE GRAVE OF ISAAC WATTS
FRED WALKER'S HOME AT COOKHAM
FRED WALKER'S GRAVE
THE WALKER MEDALLION IN COOKHAM CHURCH
GEORGE ELIOT'S GRAVE
BURKE'S MEMORIAL IN BEACONSFIELD CHURCH
AT WROXHAM
A NORFOLK DYKE
ON THE WELLAND
THE TRIANGULAR BRIDGE, CROWLAND
WITNEY BLANKET HALL
THE BUTTER CROSS AT WITNEY
JOHN COTTON'S PULPIT
FAÇADE OF KEATS' SCHOOLHOUSE
TISSINGTON VILLAGE
WARKWORTH BRIDGE
THE ARMORY, INVERARY CASTLE


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