The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . t to this old town. The finebridge of seventeen arches dates in part from the 13thcentury. Five miles north is Dorchester, a quaint little villagefamous for its noble Abbey Church containing fine glassand other interesting details. Through Days Lock and Culham Lock we come toAbingdon, an ancient place with a picturesque bridgedating from 1416. A Benedictine monastery of greatimportance existed here in the seve
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . t to this old town. The finebridge of seventeen arches dates in part from the 13thcentury. Five miles north is Dorchester, a quaint little villagefamous for its noble Abbey Church containing fine glassand other interesting details. Through Days Lock and Culham Lock we come toAbingdon, an ancient place with a picturesque bridgedating from 1416. A Benedictine monastery of greatimportance existed here in the seventh century and theGuildhall contains a fine collection of pictures. We go on through Nuneham, with its splendid woodedhillside and quaint riverside cottages, through Radleyand Sandford, to Mey, a pretty village with a Normanchurch, and well-wooded banks, and on through the Gat,scene of the Oxford college bumps, until a mile and a 44 THK THAMES VALLEY. half further on we reach Oxford, the grey city of dreamingspires. Oxford,* with its academic peace, its ancient churchesand hostelrics, its quiet by-ways, its famous High Streetand the twenty-four colleges of the University, each a. THE THAMES AT NUNEHAM. treasure house of medieval art and architecture, is probablythe finest city in England, its only rivals being Bath andCambridge. The most hoary relic in the city is the grimKeep of Oxford Castle, built in the 12th century, whileamong its other ancient structures are the lower quadrangle,cloisters, hall and chapel of Magdalen College, the buildingsof Merton College, the church of St. Peter-in-the-East,with a 12th century cr^pt, St. Michaels church and theCathedral, dating from about 1170. The Bodleian Library ?Burrows Guide to Oxford, price 6d., from most local book-sellers, or from 43, 45 and 47 Kingsway, London, can berecommended. 45 THE THAMES VALLEY is one of the great libraries of the world, just as theAshmolean ranks among the most important of the worldsmuseums. From Oxfor
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