Lower Slaughter

A Cotswold vocabulary

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August 6th 2014
Today can be summarised with a list of words and phrases familiar from nursery rhymes and novels: hedgerows, meadows, stiles, thatched cottages, bridle ways, rambling, cobblestones, churchyards, village green, hollyhocks, cowslips, old mill, old schoolhouse, Bakewell tart, light ale, Eton mess. We hired a car in Oxford and spent the day driving and walking among the evocatively-named pretty vil ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more