. The New England historical and genealogical register . , safcEsaai a-1 I! lilt! ?r -, vi f| j!Ji^^^Ja£^ZcA ST. GREGORYS CHURCH, BBMMWaHiBgJWMhwgi * agdP _., MILL AND RiVER STOUR. SUDBURY. 1902.] Our English Parent Towns. 179 OUR ENGLISH PARENT * By Oscar Fay Adams, Esq., of Boston, Mass. He must be fastidious indeed who is not pleased with Sudbury,standing on the gentlest of swells in a wide valley through which thefull-fed Stour is constantly writing the first letter of its name. It isa pretty stream, which more than one artist has loved to paint, butafter a rain its
. The New England historical and genealogical register . , safcEsaai a-1 I! lilt! ?r -, vi f| j!Ji^^^Ja£^ZcA ST. GREGORYS CHURCH, BBMMWaHiBgJWMhwgi * agdP _., MILL AND RiVER STOUR. SUDBURY. 1902.] Our English Parent Towns. 179 OUR ENGLISH PARENT * By Oscar Fay Adams, Esq., of Boston, Mass. He must be fastidious indeed who is not pleased with Sudbury,standing on the gentlest of swells in a wide valley through which thefull-fed Stour is constantly writing the first letter of its name. It isa pretty stream, which more than one artist has loved to paint, butafter a rain its low banks are lost to view and miniature lakes spreadthemselves over the green meadows. The town is comfortablypicturesque, with no end of projecting gables, half timbered housefronts that now and then are carved, winding streets not over wide,grey old parish churches, cottages with mellowed red roofs,—andyet well paved and lighted and quite wanting in that touch of squalorpresent in many small market towns. Sudbury, or Suthberie, as the Saxon Chronicle has it, literallythe south borough, is mentioned in Domesday, and was given by
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