AN EAST ANGLIAN RIVER
The Ouse may fairly be called the most characteristic of East Anglian
rivers, as it is unquestionably the most important of them. For in its
higher reaches it has all of such sober charms as the leisurely streams
of the east may boast of, while in its lower ones it loses itself in the
great artificial canal-like arteries by which it drains the fen country.
It rises near Brackley in Northamptonshire, begins to assert itself as
it passes the town of Buckingham, and by the time it reaches Olney, of
name familiar as the home of the poet Cowper, is large enough to be a
prominent note in the landscape. A dozen times, within as many recent
years, it so happens I have come down the hill into Olney from the north
and have learned to hail as a welcome relief to a not very stimulating
20 miles of Midland highway, the pleasing view which the Ouse here
discloses on a sunshiny day, spreading its bright coil down the valley
below to where in fine isolation the great parish church stands beside
its banks. The Ouse, from its source to its mouth, is at least
distinguished for the character and variety of the ancient towns it
washes. Olney, a quiet typical little old-world country town, of a
single street, has lately asserted its position so vigorously as the
shrine of Cowper that the world which had begun to forget the fact is
not likely, with its new passion for tardy justice to inadequately
honoured celebrities, to forget it again. From Olney to Bedford, some
dozen miles, is perhaps the prettiest stage of the Ouse. At the
delectable and ornate village of Turvey there is a fine whirling
mill-pool, and through the meadows beyond and particularly about
Bromham, there is some very charming river scenery of the willow, the
mill-pool, and the country-house type.
In Bedford, through which town it flows, the Ouse is a conspicuous and
ornamental feature. Indeed, it may be truly said to adorn every town it
touches. The old bridge, the long reach bordered with pleasant houses or
bowery garden walls, the life stirring upon it incidental to a great
educational centre given much to boating, are all of an inspiring
[Illustration: THE OUSE, HUNTINGDONSHIRE]
[Illustration]
kind. But Bedford is, of course, a unique type of place: an old town
which would no doubt be given over to John Bunyan, as its obscure
neighbour Olney is to Cowper, if the presence of some 3000 school boys
and girls and their much less occupied belongings had not submerged its
past in a whirl of modernity at work or play. Gliding slowly onward,
full of lusty chub and hungry pike, of bream and roach, amid scenery
that a certain school of landscape painter dearly loves, and so slowly
that the weeds in places almost choke its bed, the Ouse drops down
another dozen miles to St. Neots. This place, which seems to have some
affinity with the same saint that is honoured in a Cornish town, is very
much on the Ouse. It is a fine broad river by this time and washes the
back gardens of the houses as you enter the main street of the town,
which is dominated by an imposing church of the late Perpendicular
period. Hence both the highway and the great northern main line follow
the valley of the Ouse to Huntingdon. Much the most important
person--though of course fortuitously so, and merely because he kept an
invaluable journal which has escaped destruction--associated with this
stage of the river is Samuel Pepys, whose house at Brampton is still
standing. At Godmanchester, only a mile short of Huntingdon, the Ouse
contributes more conspicuously than ever, assisted by a great mill-pool,
to the beautifying of an old-fashioned place where, as at St. Neots, and
just beyond at Huntingdon, are numbers of those pleasant old eighteenth
or early nineteenth century residences standing just back from the road
in well-timbered grounds or bowery gardens.
Huntingdon follows quickly, and of course the memory of the great
Protector altogether dwarfs that of the poet Cowper, who resided here
with the Unwins in a house still standing near the church before he
moved to Olney. One ought to quote one or other of the various lines and
couplets that this very gentle bard has devoted, incidentally as it
were, to this very gentle stream. But it is not, I think, fair to a poet
of merit and letter-writer of much more than merit, to print fragments
that, taken by themselves, have in this case none whatever. But
Huntingdon bridge with its six arches is much older than either Cowper
or Cromwell, being almost certainly of early mediæval origin. In the
heart of the pleasant town, where its long narrow High Street opens into
a square, is "All Saints Church," with its battlements and crocketts and
its fifteenth-century origin written all over it.
[Illustration: THE OUSE, HOUGHTON MILL, HUNTINGDONSHIRE]
[Illustration]
Immediately opposite is the little old grammar school where both
Cromwell and Pepys--the latter before going to Westminster--were
educated; a beautiful little twelfth-century building with a recessed
and lavishly moulded Norman doorway surmounted by Norman windows and
arcading. Originally the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, when the
writer visited it recently the voice of the pedagogue, mingling with
that unmistakable subdued murmur of schoolboys in their bridled hours,
met us at the entrance in a manner so appropriate to the retrospective
nature of the fabric as to more than make up for the loss of anything to
be seen inside. Hinchinbrook, now and since the Cromwells sold it prior
to the Civil War, the home of the Earls of Sandwich, is the "Great
house" of the Huntingdon neighbourhood. Many will have to be reminded
that the Cromwells were not such by actual right of name, but were
descended from one Williams, a cadet of a respectable Glamorganshire
family who, as a relative and favourite of the great Thomas Cromwell,
Earl of Essex, took his name for obviously practical purposes. This
Richard Cromwell, _alias_ Williams, acquired much Church property at the
Dissolution, Hinchinbrook among the plums. A man of parts, he became
great and wealthy. His son Sir Henry more than sustained his reputation,
and built the great mansion more or less as we see it now at
Hinchinbrook. Royalty was several times entertained there, but with the
third generation and Sir Oliver, that knight's continuously lavish
living caused the transfer of the property to the Montagues. His younger
brother Robert, however, had a generous portion in the Huntingdon
estate, as every one knows except some foolish people who think because
his only son Oliver is supposed to have had a brewery, and certainly was
also a farmer, that he was not what the world calls a gentleman.
Cromwell's position was of course far better than that of most younger
sons of landed families, who had rarely any land and were only too glad
of an opening in trade--even a humble one.
For half a dozen miles through a flat country the road follows the Ouse
to St. Ives. On the farther bank are the two Hemingfords, where tall
luxuriant timber, mellow old buildings of various degrees, a large mill
and wide-spreading mill-pool and forests of tall reeds, strike a fine
contrasting note amid the far-spreading meadows. As you approach St.
Ives, a huge old tithe barn at some cross roads would arrest the
attention from any distance. It is called
[Illustration: THE OUSE, HEMINGFORD ABBOTS, HUNTINGDONSHIRE]
[Illustration]
after the Protector from a tradition that within it he drilled his first
local levies. St. Ives had no connection, like St. Neots, with the
Cornish equivalent, but finds its origin in the incredible visitations
of a Persian missioner, one Ivo. However that may be, the town was known
till near Cromwell's day as Slepe, and at Slepe Hall, a large mansion
within it only removed in modern times, the Protector dwelt when he was
farming the surrounding lands.
The town of course contains abundant matters of interest, but is in
itself perhaps less attractive to the passing visitor than those higher
up the Ouse. But the river itself, now increased considerably here,
makes the finest display of all, skirting the houses in wider current
and spanned by a bridge of six arches very like its fellow at
Huntingdon. Two of the arches are of only Queen Anne date, but the
others are lost in the mists of time. The special feature of the bridge,
however, is a curious sexagonal chapel of apparently four stories and
one room thick. It was originally a chapel, but since the Dissolution
has served in many capacities--even that of a public-house--and is now a
private dwelling. At the end of the bridge is an ancient Tudor building
once the Manor House. Altogether the bridge at St. Ives with its fine
swell of waters, its old quays and gable ends on one bank and pendent
trees on the other, with the view upstream over spreading meadows and
down-stream towards the spacious fen lands, is a notable one, a paradise
for oarsmen and the joy of the bottom fisher. In the market-place of St.
Ives, too, stands a statue to Cromwell on the strength of his long
residence here and general association with the neighbourhood. Many, no
doubt, of those who formed the early companies and troops of the "New
Model" came from St. Ives. The parish church is a fine specimen of the
Decorated style, while its tower has had the unusual experience of
losing two spires by wind and collapse in quite modern times.
One is here at the very edge of Cambridgeshire, and well on towards the
fen country. The Ouse below St. Ives is no longer confined to its
natural course, but canalised and manipulated in various ways for
drainage purposes of this great far-reaching fen-land. It is about 15
miles from here to Ely by road, and the journey along it takes the
traveller into another kind of country from the ordinary grass and
fallow and timbered hedgerow, sometimes flat and sometimes undulating
through which the Ouse has hitherto meandered.
[Illustration: THE OUSE, NEAR HOLYWELL, HUNTINGDONSHIRE]
[Illustration]
It must be conceded that the fen country is forbidding. No doubt it has
its compensating moments and aspects, but the intervals of waiting for
them must be oppressive. Enthusiasts may be heard anon chanting its
praises (theoretically) even as a region of permanent abode, but there
is not a little posing nowadays in such matters. In the Middle Ages in
the dead of winter the fen country must have been imposing; but the fen
from St. Ives to Ely in the height of summer, with its continuously
unfenced cultivation, its ever-recurring grain-fields, its lack of wood
and of English landscape-graces generally, is very depressing. It is
most interesting, however, to watch the isle of Ely rising out of the
fat levels and drawing gradually nearer till the road itself at last
rises on to it, and the beautiful Cathedral, lifted high above the
fen-land and above the East Anglian levels that are not fen, looks
southward to where the striking mass of King's Chapel rises beneath the
faint smoke-cloud which marks the famous town of Cambridge.
We meet the Ouse again at Ely. Since University rowing began it has been
associated with Cambridge as an object of pilgrimage to enterprising
oarsmen, and in a more professional way the time-honoured seat of the
Annual race between the University trial eights. For I trust it is not
necessary to remind the reader that the river Cam or Granta flows into
the Ouse near Ely. At this preternaturally quiet and diminutive little
cathedral town we must leave the Ouse to find its devious and
much-bridled way to King's Lynn and to the North Sea. Ely Cathedral is,
of course, distinguished for the abundance of perfect Norman work that
survives within it, while the old red brick episcopal palace contiguous
to it, and the precincts generally, with their snug gardens and
whispering leaves, are, as in such a place they should be, the veritable
haunts of ancient peace.
[Illustration: THE STOUR, NEAR DEDHAM, ESSEX]
[Illustration]
INDEX
_The references in black type refer to illustrations._
Abbot Lichfield, 157
Abbot's Cleeve, 158
Abbots Worthy, 93
Aberedw, 45, 46, 49
Abergwessin, 46
Aberystwith, 40
Adur, the, 211
Aire, the, 233
Allen, the, 102, 106
Aln, the, 102, 130
Alnwick, 129, 130
Alresford, 93, 95, 98, 99
Alston, 105
Amberley, 215, 216
Amesbury, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78
Amesbury Abbey, 76
Apperley Court, 35
Appleby, 137
Appledore, 192
Arley, 21, 22
Armstrongs, the, 144
Arrow, the, 54
Arun, the, 201, =208=, =210=, 213, 214, 216
Arundel, 211, 215, 216
Ashelworth ferry, 35
Ashford, 220
Astley, 26
Atcham, 20
Avebury, 66, 70
Avington Park, 97
Avon, the Bristol, 149, 150, 151, =154=
the Devon, 164, 172, 173, 177
the Salisbury, 64, =66=, 71, 72-76, 79,
80, 83-86, 153, 155, 156, 157, =158=, 158, 159
Avon, the Stratford, 152
Axe, the, =204=, 207, 208
Aylesford, 219
Aymestry, 54
Aysgarth Force, 251
Badgworthy, 203, 204
Balliol, Barnard, 266
Barden, 237, 238
Barden Tower, 236
Baring-Gould, 184
Barle, the, 191, 204, 205, 206
Barnard Castle, 265, 266
Barnstaple, 192, 197
Barnstaple Bay, 192
Bassenthwaite, 148
Bath, 66, 150, 152
Battlefield Church, 17
Becket, Thomas à, 223, 242
Bedford, 270, 271
Duke of, 181, 182
Bellingham, 122
Bemerton, 81
Bere Alston, 181
Berkshire, 64, 71
Berry Pomeroy, 167
Bettons, 18
Beult, the, 219
Bewcastle, 140
Bewley, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Bickleigh, 184
Bideford, 178, 192, 197, 198
Bidford, 157
Birlingham, 158
Birmingham, 22, 24, 40, 43
Bishopstoke, 93
Blackmore, 203
Black Mountains, 43, 44, 47, 51, 52, 59
Blaen Hafryn, 9
Blencowe, 138
Bloody Meadow, 34
Bolland, 232
Bolton Abbey, 234, 235, 238, 239
Castle, 251
Hall, 230, 231
Border Rivers, the, 101-148
Boughrood, 44
Bournemouth, 86
Box Hill, 217
Brackley, 269
Bradford, 150, 233, 244
Brampton, 271
Brathay, the, 146, =150=
Bray, the, 196, 197
Brecon, 8, 40, 45
Brede, the, 212
Bredon Hill, 156, 158
Bredwardine, 50
Breiddon Hills, 10, 14
Brendon, 203
Brent, 172, 173, 177, 190
Brent Tor, 189
Bridgenorth, 21
Bridge Sollars, 51
Brighton, 214
Brinkburn Priory, 128
Bristol, 22, 66, 149, 150, 152
Channel, 22, 177, 191
Broadway, 156
Bromham, 270
Bromleys, 26
Brougham, 138, 238
Castle, 138
Broughton-in-Furness, 147
Brown Willy, 179
Browne, William, 183
Bruce, 117
Buckfastleigh, 166
Buckingham, 64, 269
Budleigh, 207
Buildwas, 21
Builth, 46
"Builth rocks," 46
Bunyan, John, 271
Burgh, Hubert de, 242
Buttermere, 148
Byford, 51
Caermarthen, 40
Caldbeck, 141
Calder, the, 140, 232
Caldron Snout, 263, 264, 265
Calne, 151
Calstock, 181
Cam, the, 278
Cambridge, 277
Camden, 252
Candover, 98
Canterbury, 220, 222, 223, 224
Cathedral, 223
Caradoc, 20
Cardigan, 40
Carlisle, 112, 138, 140, 142, 143
Carter Fell, 120
Castle Hill, 197
Chadbury Mill, 158
Chalk Streams, the, 64-100
Challacombe, 196, 205
Charles II., 28, 78, 159
Chartham, 221
Chatham, 218, 219
Chepstow, 44, 55, 60
Castle, =34=, 62, 63
Chesters, 118
Cheviots, the, 102, 120, 121, 122, 133, 134, 141
Chilham, 221
Chillingham, 133
Chipchase Castle, 119
Chippenham, 151
Chirbury, 12
Chisenbury, 72
Christchurch, 84, 86
Civil War, 37
Claerwen, the, 42
Clare, 61
Clarendon, 84
Lord, 80
Clares, the, 37
Claverings, the, 129
Cleeve, 156
Prior, 157, 158
Cleveland Hills, 256
Duke of, 265
Clifford, 44
Clifford, Black, 236
Castle, 49
Henry Lord, 236
Cliffords, the, 240
Clifton, 150
Clitheroe, 230, 232, 233
Clun, 10
Clywedog, the, 9
Coalbrook Dale, 21
Coalport, 21
Cobbett, 81
Cobbett's _Rural Ride_, 72
Cocker, the, 148
Cockermouth, 148
Cogham, 217
Coleridges, the, 145
Colne, the, 100
Combertons, the, 158
Condover brook, 19
Coombe Martin, 202
Coquet, the, 102, 122, 123, 124, 125, 128, 130, 132
Corbridge, 114
Cornwall, 164, 165, 178, 179, 199
Cotehele, 181
Cotswolds, the, 36, 156
Cowper, the poet, 269, 270, 271, 272
Craven country, 231
Cromwell, 69, 159, 238, 245, 272, 274, 275, 276
Cromwell, Sir Henry, 274
Cropthorne, 158
Crossfell, 102, 136, 263
Crummock, 148
Cuckmere, the, 221, 213
Cumberland, 136, 143, 147
Cwm Elan, 42
Dacre, fortalice of, 138
Dacre, Lord, 120
Danby, 250
Darenth, the, 218
Darlington, 252, 268
Dart, the, 154, 164, 165, =166=, 171, 172, 177, 185
Dartford, 218
Dartington Hall, 167
Dartmeet, 165
Dartmoor, 161, 165, 179, 185, 190, 191
Dartmouth, 168, 170, 171
Dean, Forest of, 36, 57, 60
Deerhurst, 35
De Quincey, 145
Derwent, Derbyshire, the, _Frontispiece_, =38=, 101, 147, 148, 229
the Borrowdale, =142=, =146=
the Eastern, 101
Derwentwater, 109, 148
Devon, the Rivers of, 161-208
Devonshire, 161-208
Duke of, 235
Dickens, 267, 268
Dilston, 109
Dinton, 80
Dipford, 173
Dipton Dene, 109
Dittisham, 170
Doldowlod, 45
Dore, the, 50
Dorset, 64, 84
Dove, the, =100=
Douglas, 121
Downton, 30
Drake, Sir Francis, 182, 183, 189
Duddon, the, 147
Dudley, Earls of, 26
Dulverton, 206
Durham, 101, 102, 136, 264, 266
Durrington, 72
Eamont, the, 137
Easby Abbey, 258
Ebbsfleet, 226
Eden, the, 102, 136, =136=, =140=, 141, 142, 143
Edgcumbe, 181
Edgehill, 157, 159
Edw, the, 46
Edward I., 11, 76, 117, 246
II., 38
III., 129
IV., 34
Eggesford, 196
Eggleston Abbey, 268
Ehen, the, 147
Elan, the, 41, 42, 45
Elfrida, Queen, 76
Elizabeth, Queen, 26, 189, 231
Ellenborough, Lord, 140
Elmley Castle, 158
Ely, 277, 278
Cathedral, 278
Endsleigh, 181
Enford, 72
Ennerdale, 147
Epynt, the, 45, 47
Erme, the, 164, 172, =172=
Erwood, Rapids of, 49
Esher, 217
Esk, Cumberland, the, 143, 147
the Yorkshire, 229
Etheldreda, Queen, 114
Evesham, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159
Exe, the, 177, 191, =200=, =202=, 204, 206
Exeter, 189, 190, 192, 206
Exmoor, 161, 191, 196, 197, 202, 205, 206
Exmouth, 206
Falcon Clints, 265
Faversham, 220
Fawcett, Prof., 85
Featherstonhaughs, the, 109, 139
Felton Bridge, 128
Figheldean, 72
Fitzhamon, Robert, 33
Fladbury, 158
Fleet, 25
Fleetwood, 32
Flodden, 134, 237, 250
Fonthill, 80
Fordingbridge, 84
Fortescues, the, 197
Fountains Abbey, 248
Gade, the, 100
Gaunt, John of, 242
Gay, the poet, 77
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 58, 59, 76
Giggleswick, 230
Gilpin, Dr., 114
Gilsland, 140
Gisburn, 230
Glamorgan, 33
Glasbury, 47, 48
Gloucester, 35, 36
Cathedral, 38
Glyndwr, Owen, 15, 50
Godmanchester, 272
Godmersham, 221
Goodrich Castle, 55
Grahams of Netherby, 144
Granham Hill, 68
Greta, 267, 268
Gretna Green, 142
Greystone Bridge, 179, 180
Grosmont Castle, 58
Guy's Cliff, 153
Hafryn, the, 9
Hallow Park, 26
Haltwhistle, 107, 110
Hamoaze, the, =162=
Hampshire, 64, 87, 98
Harrogate, 240, 241
Hartlebury Castle, 26
Haughmond Hill, 19
Haweswater, 137
Hawkins, 170
Hay, 44, 47, 49
Haydon Bridge, 106
Headbourne, 93
Headons Mouth, 202
Heale, 78
Helvellyn, 139
Hemingfords, the, 274
Henry III., 11, 12
Henry IV., 15, 17, 129
Henry VI., 231, 233
Henry VII., 18, 237, 253
Henry VIII., 58
Herbert, George, 81
Herbert, Lord, of Chirbury, 12
Hereford, 43, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55
Cathedral, 52
Herefordshire, 30, 44, 50, 58
Heron Family, 119
Hertford, Lord and Lady, 69, 77
Hertfordshire, 64
Hexham, 104, 105, 106, 107, 114, 115, 118, 246, 248
Abbey, 115
Battle of, 109
Hexhamshire, 109, 114
Heytesbury, 81
High Force, 263, 264, 265
Hinchinbrook, 273
Hodder, the, 232
Holm Lacy, 53
Holne, 167
Holne Chase, 166
Holt, 25
Castle, 26
Homildon Hill, 135
Honddu, the, 50, 57
Horton Manor, 221
Hotspur, 17, 121, 129, 130, 135
Houghton Castle, 119
Huish, 173
Humber, the, 229, 234
Hungerford, 71
Huntingdon, 271, 272
Hutton John House, 138
Hyde, Mrs., 78
Ingilbys, the, 245
Instow, 192
Irfon, the, 46
Irt, the, 147
Irthling, the, 102, 140
Itchen, the, 64, 87, 88, =88=, 90, 92, 93, =94=, 99, 154
Abbas, 88, 94, 95
Stoke, 94
Ithon, the, 45
Ivybridge, 172
James II., 69
Jervaulx Abbey, 251
Katharine of Arragon, 76
Kendal, 147
Kennet, the, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 87, 88, 91
Kent, 147, 209, 217, 220, 222
Kentchurch Court, 58
Kerry, 10
Hills, 45
Keswick, 238
Greta, 146
Keynsham, 150
Kingsbridge, 172
Kingsley, Charles, 88, 167
King's Lynn, 278
Kings Nympton, 197
Kintbury, 71
Kirby Stephen, 258
Kirkoswald, 139, 140, 141
Knaresborough, 241, 242, 246
Lacock, 151
Abbey, 151
Lake District, 136, 141
House, 78
Lancashire, 230, 232
Lanfranc, 223
Langdale Pikes, 147
Launceston, 178, 179
Lawes, 80
Lazonby, 140
Leamington, 154
Leatherhead, 217
Leeds, 233, 252
Leith Hill stream, a, =216=
Leven, the, 147
Lew, the, 184
Lewes, 211, 213
Liddel, the, 102
Liddesdale, 117
Littlecote, 69, 70
Wild Darrell of, 70
Littlehampton, 211, 215, 216
Llangurig, 41
Llanidloes, 9, 10
Llanthony Abbey, 38
Llewelyn III., 46
"the Great," 12
Llyfni, the, 48
Llysdinam, 45
Llywarch Hen, 20
Loddiswell, 173
Longford, 84
Longmynd, 21
_Lorna Doone_, 203, 204
Lowther, the, 137
Ludlow, 30
Lugg, the, 54
Lune, the, 136, 265
Lydbrooke Junction, 156
Lydd, 211
the, 184, 190
Lynmouth, 185, 201, 203
Lynn, the, 185, =198=, 202, 204
Lynton, 201, 203
Maidstone, 218, 219
Malmesbury, 151
Malvern Hills, 31, 157
Manningford Bruce, 71
Mardale, 147
Margaret, Queen, 34, 109
Marlborough, 67, 68, 69, 76
College, 67, 68
Downs, 66, 150
_Marmion_, 262
Marmions, the, 249
Marston Moor, 245
Marteg, the, 41
Martinsell, 71
Mary Queen of Scots, 148
Mary Tavy, 185
Masham, 250
Massey, 37
Mayhill, 36
Maze beck, 264
Meavy, the, 184
Medway, the, 217, 218, 219, 220, =220=, 221, 223, =224=, =226=
Meole, 19
Meschines, William de, 239
Micklefell, 264
Middleham, 251
Middlesborough, 228
Middleton, 265
Milton, 221
Moat Lane, 9
Moccas, 50
Mole, the, 216, 217
Monington, 50
Monmouth, 44, 56, 57, 58, 59
"Monmouth caps," 22
Monmouthshire, 57
Monnow, the, 50, =52=, 57, 58
Montagues, the, 274
Montgomery Castle, 11, 12, 13
Roger of, 11
Montgomeryshire, 9, 10, 14, 40
Morecambe Bay, 147, 230
Morritt, Mr., 267
Mortimers, the, 37
Cross, 54
Morwell, 181
Moulsey, 217
Mowbray, vale of, 256
Much Wenlock Priory, 21
Musgraves, the, 144
Mytton, the Governor of Shrewsbury, 18
Nadder, the, 80
Naseby, 153, 154, 158
Netheravon, 72, 74, 75
Neville, Anne, 266
Neville's Cross, 129
Newbiggin, 138
Newbury, 71
Newby Bridge, 147
Newcastle, 103, 104, 105, 112
New Forest, 84, 86
Newhaven, 211, 214
Newtown, 10
Nidd, the, 228, 240, 241, =242=, 243, 245, 252
Northamptonshire, 153, 269
Northumberland, 101, 102, 108, 136
Norton, 158
Offa's Dyke, 11
Offenham, 157
Okehampton, 190, 192
Okement, the, =37=, 190, 191, 201
Olney, 269, 270, 271, 272
Ombersley, 26
Otter, the, 207
Otterburn, 121
Ouse, the East Anglian, =268=, 269, =270=, 270,
271, 272, =272=, 274, =274=, 275, 276, =276=, 278
the Sussex, 211, =212=, 213, 214, =214=
the Yorkshire, 228, 229, 245, 252
Pant-y-dwr, 9
Pateley Bridge, 243
Peel, John, 141
Peel-towers, 138
Pegwell Bay, 225
Pembroke, Anne, Countess of, 237
Pendle Hill, 232
Pennine Range, 102, 136, 137, 139, 141, 146, 230, 258, 263
Penrith, 137, 140
Penruddocks, the, 80
Penshurst, 218
Pepys, Samuel, 271, 273
Percies, the, 15, 29, 109, 122
Pershore, 154, 158
Petteril, the, 140
Pewsey, 71, 74
Piers Gaveston, 242
"Pilgrims' way," 221
Pinkerry, 204
Plinlimmon, 6, 7, 8, 9, 40
Plym, the, 184
Plymouth, 164, 172, 177, 178, 181, 184, 187, 189
Pontrilas, 57
Popham, 70
Portinscale, 148
Portsmouth Arms, 196
Lord, 196
Powick, 30
Bridge, 27
Powis Castle, 13
Powys Fadog, 10
Preshute, 67
Presteign, 54
Preston, 230, 232, 233
Prudhoe, 109
Pudsay's Leap, 231
Pudsays, the, 231
Pulborough, 215
Queensbury, Duke and Duchess of, 77
Radnorshire, 8, 40, 45
Moors, 30, 47, 50, 54
Raleigh, 170
Ramsbury, 70
Chase, 69
Ramsgate, 225
Ravenglass, 147
Reading, 71
Redbrook, 60
Rede, the, 115, 117, 120, 121, 122
Redesdale, 117-120, 121
Redgauntlet, 143
Redhill, 217
Reedsmouth, 120
Reidseweir, 120
Rhayader, 43, 44, 48
Ribble, the, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233
Richard III., 266
Richmond, Yorks, 246, 253, 254, 255, 257, 258
Castle, 256
Ridleys, 109
Ringwood, 84, 85, 86
Ripley (Yorkshire), 245
Ripon, 245, 246, 247, 249, 257
Cathedral, 246
Marquis of, 248
Robertsbridge, 211
Rob Roy, 123
Rochester, 218, 219, 220
Roger, Archbishop, 247, 248
_Rokeby_, 262, 265, 268
Rokeby House, 266
Roman Wall, 101, 111, 118, 122, 141
Romney Marsh, 211, 212
Romsey Abbey, 99
Rosamond, fair, 49
Roses, War of the, 34, 37, 160
Ross, 44, 60, 53, 54, 56
"Ross, Man of," 55
Rossthwaite, 147
Rothay, the, 146
Rothbury, 123
Rother, the Eastern and Western 211, 212, 215, =216=, 224
Rupert, Prince, 27, 159
Russells, the, 182
Rutupium, 226
Rye, 211, 212, 224
St. Augustine, 222, 223, 226
St. Cross, 93
St. Ives, 274, 275, 276, 277
Bridge, 275
St. John's, 265
St. Neots, 271, 272
St. Wilfrid, 114, 246, 248
Salcombe, 173
Salisbury, 75, 78, 79, 84, 86, 92
Salisbury Plain, 66, 72, 76, 80, 81
Salkeld, 139
Sandwich, 220, 224, 225
Earls of, 273
Savernake Forest, 69, 70
Scafell, 147
Scarborough, 229
Scott, Sir Walter, 113, 123, 249, 259, 260, 261, 263, 267
Scotts of Buccleuch, the, 144
Scropes, the, 250, 251, 258
Seaford, 211
Seaton, 207
Settle, 230
Severn, the, 1-38, =6=, =18=, =30=, =34=
Severn "bore," 35
Seymours, the, 67
Shakespeare, 129, 156, 157, 159
Sharpham, 170
Sharpness Point, 35
Shawford, 99
Shawley, 233
Sheppey Island, 220
Shoreham, 211, 214
Shrawley wood, 26
Shrewsbury, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Shropshire, 14, 21
Sidmouth, 207
Sidney, Sir Philip, 80, 117
Simon-de-Montfort, 159
Simonsbath, 205
Sittingbourne, 220
Skell, the, 248
Skelwith Force, =144=
Skenfrith Castle, 58
Skiddaw, 139, 143
Forest, 140
Skipton, 237
Slepe Hall, 275
Slingsby family, 242
Solway, 142, 143
Somerset, 161, 206
Protector, 77
Southey, 145, 146
South Hams, 172, 173
Stainmore forests, 265
Stanhope, 265
Stapleton on the Wiley, =82=
Staverton, 167
Stonehenge, 67, 76
Stonyhurst College, 233
Stour, the Kent, 218, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225, 226
the Midlands, 24
the Suffolk, =268=, =278=
Stourport, 24
Stratford, 153, 154, 156, 157, 158
Stridd, the, 235
Studley Royal, 248
Surrey, 209, 216, 217
Sussex, 209, 211, 214, 217
Swale, the, 220, 228, 245, 252, =252=, 253, =254=, 256, =256=, 258, =258=
Swinburne, 119
Symond's Yat, 44, 55, 61
Tal-y-llyn, lake of, 48
Tamar, the, 165, 177, 178, =178=, 179,
180, 181, 182, =182=, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189, 191, 198
Tanfield, Tower of, 249
Tate, Canon, 256
Tavistock, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189
Abbey, 183
Tavy, the, 184, 185, 186, =186=, 187, 190
Tavy Cleeve, 185
Taw, the, 191, 192, 196
Tees, the, 136, 228, 229, =260=, 262, 263, 264, =264=, 265, =266=, 268
Teise, the, 219
Teme, 27, 29, 54, 154
Tenbury, 30
Test, the, 64, 87, 88, 90, 99, 100
Tewkesbury, 29, 32, 152, 154, 160
Tewkesbury Abbey, 33, 34, 160
Battle of, 34
Thames, the, =64=, =70=, =152=, =160=, =208=, 217, 218, 220, 222
Thirsk, 229
Thomson, the poet, 69
Tichbourne, 98
Tilbury, 70
Till, the, 102, 133, 134, 135
Tillingham, the, 212
Tintern Abbey, 44, 59, 60, 61
Tiverton, 206
Torridge, the, 192, 198, 199, 200, 201
Torrington, 193, 198
Totnes, 167, 168, 171
Trafalgar, 84
Trent, the, =228=
Trowbridge, 151
Tunbridge, 218
Turvey, 270
Tweed, the, 133
Tweedmouth, 103
Tyne, the, =102=, 103, 104, 113, 136
the North, 102, 105, 112, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 125
"Tynesider, the," 104
Tyne, the South, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 115
Ullswater, 137
Unwins, the, 272
Upavon, 72
Upton on Severn, 32
Ure, the, 228, 245, =246=, 248, 249, =250=, 251
Uriconium, 15, 20
Usk, the, 59
Vyrnwy, the, 14
Waddington, 233
Walkham, the, 185, 188, 189
Wallace, 117
Wandsbeck, the, 102
Warden Woods, 118
Wardour, 80
Wark, 120
Warkworth 129, 130
Town of, 132
Warminster, 81, 82
Warwick, 154
Castle, 153
Wastwater, 147
Watermouth, 202
Watling Street, 220
Wear, the, 265
Wellford Bridge, 157
Welshpool, 13
Wenlock Edge, 20
Wensley Dale, 249, 251
Westbury, 151
Westerham, 218
Westmoreland, 136, 137, 258, 264
Wey, the, 216, =218=, =222=
Whalley, 233
Wharfe, the, 228, =230=, 234, =234=, 235, 236, 237, 238, =238=, 243, 252
Whitby, 229
Whitchurch, 99
Whitecliff Scaur, 257
Whitley, 26
Whittington, 140
Wiley, the, 64, 80, 81, 83
William, 69
Williance, 257
Williemoteswyke, 110
Wilton, 80, 81, 82
House, 80
Wiltshire, 64, 66, 70, 78, 80, 81, 84, 86, 87, 151
Winchelsea, 212
Winchester, 89, 92, 93, 98
Windermere, 146, 147
Woodleigh, 173
Wooler, 133
Wooler burn, 134
Worcester, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 37
Battle of, 28, 32
Cathedral, 27
Worcestershire, 25
Wordsworth, 145, 146, 147, 176
Workington, 148
Worthing, 214
Wrekin, 20
Wye, the, =34=, 39-63, =40=, =46=, =60=, =62=, 221
Wyndcliff, 44, 61
Wyndhams, the, 80
Wyre Forest, 24
Wyvern, Sir Thomas, 250
Yalding, 219
Yanwath, 138
Yeoford Junction, 192
Yes Tor, 190
York, 245
Yorkshire, 227, 264
Yorkshire Dales, 227-268
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