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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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le andcider country) to Stroud, where we enter the valley of theFrome or Stroudwater, and follow the river through Brims-combe, Chalford, and Frampton Mansell to Saperton. Thischarming valley is well known to those who travel by railbetween Swindon and Gloucester. The railway makes its wayalong the slope of the hill on the south side of the river,and so steep is the gradient that an additional engine is always on duty to help drag the trains up to the tunnel. Here the passenger with a parting glimpse at the temptingsylvan shades, which we cyclists and pedestrians are privi-leged to explore, bids farewell to the Golden Valley (such isits pet name) not to see daylight again till he emerges amidthe Oakley Woods on the high tableland of the basin of the upper Thames. Thanks to the tunnel Saperton has escaped the railway, and the upper reaches of the valley retain all their primitive seclusion. The village is perched high up on the southern slopes, and looks down upon Daneway bridge and Daneway
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CH. xiiT SAPERTON CHURCH 327 House, which we shall visit directly, but the church claims ourfirst attention. Though (with the exception of the tower) it datesonly from the early eighteenth century, it is a building ofexceptional interest. To enter is to be transported in a twink-ling back to the days of good Queen Anne. Instinctively, youlook around for the rector in gown and bands, the musicians withbass-viol and hautboy in the gallery, and Sir Robert in lacedcoat and flowing periwig seated at his ease in the Squires pew.Sir Robert, do I say ? The Gloucestershire man, versed in thehistory of the Atkyns family, will of course remind me thatthere were two Sir Roberts, father and son ; and that as theson survived the father only a couple of years, the chances arethat they frequented the family pew together. And well theymay, for the father resided at the manor-house quite close to thechurch, the son at Pinbury only a mile higher up the valley. TheAtkynses were a family of lawyers, and f

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