Wessex . ransmutedinto z. On the margin of the two counties onefinds the form of speech still obtaining amongst thepeasant and working classes which has been woveninto several of Fieldings novels. Amongst the Somerset towns and villages whichappear in the Wessex novels or tales, Yeovil, the Ivellof the novels and of the stories. The Tragedy of TwoAmbitions and For Conscience Sake, is a town of someimportance. It possesses a fine church of the Perpen-dicular period and is picturesquely situated upon thehillside above the river Yeo, from which its name isderived. In the immediate neighbourhood a
Wessex . ransmutedinto z. On the margin of the two counties onefinds the form of speech still obtaining amongst thepeasant and working classes which has been woveninto several of Fieldings novels. Amongst the Somerset towns and villages whichappear in the Wessex novels or tales, Yeovil, the Ivellof the novels and of the stories. The Tragedy of TwoAmbitions and For Conscience Sake, is a town of someimportance. It possesses a fine church of the Perpen-dicular period and is picturesquely situated upon thehillside above the river Yeo, from which its name isderived. In the immediate neighbourhood are many historicseats of unusual interest, including Montacute, with itsbeautiful garden of terraced walks and magnificenthall, which have remained almost unaltered from thedays of Queen Elizabeth ; whilst near Langport is theestate which was bequeathed to the elder Pitt by aneccentric baronet named Sir William Pynsent, with fine 258 COKER S, FROME : A TYPICAL DORSET DAIRY HOUSE ? . 1 > • > >. • • •* • Frome and Melbury Park views northward to Bridgewater and southward oversuccessive ranges of low hills, Brimton, the home of Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane,is of various dates, a quaint Inigo Jones garden-frontcontrasting with a chantry house built before the reignof Henry VII. From Langport north-eastwards to Frome lies abeautiful stretch of country, with the Mendip Hillssending their eastward spurs within ten miles or so ofthe latter town, busy with its cloth manufactures andstanding on a steep slope, with its main streets climbingthe hill. The church is rather florid in parts, and itwas not only restored by the well-known Ritualisticvicar, the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, but possesses aremarkable Calvary also set up by him. Hard by Yeovil is Melbury Park, the principal sceneof the short story, The First Countess of tVessex, thereindisguised by Mr Hardy as Kings Hintock ; near bythe Falls Park of that story is the exquisitely situatedruin of Nunney Castle, once besiege
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