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Dundas Aqueduct
Carrying the Kennet & Avon Canal over the river Avon, just east
of Bath. Glimpses of railway below, and road along the hillside,
are also in the picture. I am steering our longboat "Leah".
Gateway in Pembroke College, Cambridge
Roland punting
on the River Cam.
Symond's Yat
from the viewpoint called the Yat Rock, on the neck of a sharp incised
loop in the course of the river Wye. The river, coming from the
right and flowing away from beneath our feet, returns only a few
hundred yards to the left as it enters its gorge between England
and Wales.
Tarr Steps
Ancient footbridge made of stone slabs, over the upper course of
the river Exe.
Killerton
The garden of an eighteenth-century house, along the foot of a hill
in the valley of the river Culm north of Exeter.
Cathedral and bishop
An impression of Bath Abbey.
Bemerton
George Herbert, one of the best of the "Metaphysical"
poets of the seventeenth century, was parish priest of this village
just west of Salisbury. His tiny church is on the left and his huge
rambling rectory to the right.
Bemerton looking west
George Herbert's plaque on his house.
Peveril Castle
or the Castle of the Peak, built by a Norman lord to command the Hope
Valley, in the Peak District of Derbyshire. From the village of Castleton,
it looms several hundred feet up on a small peak of its own, with
steep grassy front and even steeper ravines cutting it off on the
other two sides from the mountainside behind. But this view is from
within its perimeter wall, looking up to the keep, or main tower,
at the top corner.
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