Identifier: cu31924014023463 (find matches)
Title: The cottages and the village life of rural England
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 Quinton, A.R
Subjects: Cottages Villages
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd. New York, E.P. Dutton & co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tof tylle. The county of Worcester has many beautiful examples of tiled-roofed and picturesque cottages, especially in the villages of Oddingley, Cropthorne, Defford, and in many others. We give a sketch of the half-timbered tiled-roofed cottage at Cropthorne, near Evesham, a very old village, as it was granted by King Offa (a.d. 758-796) to the monastery of Worcester. In the parish there is the sad spectacle of a ruined chapel, that of Netherton, which dates back to Norman times and possesses a quaint tympanum, showing a dragon with a kind of flower for head and mouth, huge outspread wings, and a long tail curling well over his back. The village lies on the banks of the beautiful Avon, which William Sandys in 1636 made navigable from Tewkesbury to Stratford for boats of thirty tons burden by placing wires (weirs) and gates, one of these having been erected below Cropthorne Mill. The memory of good deeds lingers long in rustic minds, and old men still call part of Cropthorne Weir SandysPost. 54
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LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND A very pretty tiled-roofed cottage is that of Small Hythe, near Tenterden, in Kent. It is entitled to fame as having been for some time the residence of the favourite actress Miss Ellen Terry. It is a half-timber construction, with nail-studded door, and stands in a district remarkable for hops and sheep. Tenterden Church raises its steeple heavenwards, and a curious legend is connected with it. Its building by the Abbot of Canterbury is said to have caused the loss of that fair region of Kent that extended eastward, and is now submerged, the Goodwin Sands being its only remembrance. The Abbot is said to have used for the purpose of building the steeple some stones that guarded the sea-wall which protected Earl Goodwins lands from the attacks of the sea. Hence the wall gave way, the sea rushed in, and has ever since rolled over the Earls fertile acres. There is, of course, little truth in the story, which varies much in detail. Bishop Latimer in one of his sermons attributed t

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