. Vanishing England . A Portsnioutii Row 9o VANISHING ENGLAND The entrance to the churchyard in Chalfont St. Giles isthrough a wonderfully picturesque turnstile or lich-gateunder an ancient house in the High Street. The gateformerly closed itself mechanically by means of a pulleyto which was attached a heavy weight. Unfortunately. ml . V^;-*^- jsm A T\cc Lich-gate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks , this weight was not boxed in—as in the somewhat similarexample at Hayes, in Middlesex—and an accident whichhappened to some children resulted in its removal. A good many picturesque old houses rem
. Vanishing England . A Portsnioutii Row 9o VANISHING ENGLAND The entrance to the churchyard in Chalfont St. Giles isthrough a wonderfully picturesque turnstile or lich-gateunder an ancient house in the High Street. The gateformerly closed itself mechanically by means of a pulleyto which was attached a heavy weight. Unfortunately. ml . V^;-*^- jsm A T\cc Lich-gate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks , this weight was not boxed in—as in the somewhat similarexample at Hayes, in Middlesex—and an accident whichhappened to some children resulted in its removal. A good many picturesque old houses remain in thevillage, among them being one called Stonewall Farm, astructure of the fifteenth century with an original billet-moulded porch and Gothic barge-boards. There is a certain similarity about the villages that dot IN STREETS AND LANES 9i the Vale of Aylesbury. The old Market House is usuallya feature of the High Street—where it has not been spoiltas at Wendover. Groups of picturesque timber cottages,thickest round the church, and shouldered here and thereby their more respectable and severe Georgian brethren,are common to all, and vary but little in their generalaspect and colouring. Memories and legends haunt everyhamlet, the very names of which have an ancient soundcarrying us vaguely back to former days. Pri
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