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Title: Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire: illustrative of the works of Robert Bloomfield: accompanied with descriptions: to which is annexed a memoir of the poet's life
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823 England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Vernor, Hodd, and Sharpe, Poultry
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sbeginning. The View is taken from a rising ground nearlytwo miles from the Lodge, in the front of whichis seen a piece of water containing eighteen acres:in the distance on the left is Bow-Brick Hill, inBuckinghamshire. Near the back of the housetwo or three noble glades concentrate, which branchout in different directions through the extent ofthe forest. Bloomfield, who spent some time atthe Lodge in August 1800, expresses the particulardelight he found in taking a prospect of the countryat the extremity of this wood : Genius of the forest shades. Sweet from the heights of thy domain,\Vhen the grey evening shadow fades, To view the countrys golden grain;To view the gleaming village spire, Midst distant groves unknown to me,Groves that, grown bright in borrowd fire. Bow oer the peopled vales to thee ! This address to the Genius of the Forest Shades,was made near the foot of Wakes Oak. The* village spire, is the spire of Hanslop Church, inNorthamptonshire, and has since been destroyed
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N DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY, <5rc. 45 by lightning; the tower only remains. WakesOak is reckoned about eight yards in circumference :its age cannot be ascertained, and the origin of itsname is equally obscure. 46 DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY, !;c. SHOOTERS HILL, Probably so called from the archers frequentlyexercisiii themselves here in shootino^ with thebow*, is eight miles from London on the highroad to Dover. It was in former times a j^iaceof much danger and dread to travellers from thenarrowness of the road over it, and the manylurking-places afforded to thieves by the woodsand coppices with which the hill was covered :many robberies were conmiitted here even at noon-day. In the year 1737 a new road was laid outmuch wider than the old one; the greater partof the wood has also been cleared off, and theabove disorders have since been in a considerabledegree prevented. * It is said tliat King Henry the Eighth and his queen Catharinecame to this place from Greenvvicli on a )\Iay-day

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