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 . East Anglia which, within its narrowestlimits, comprises the counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. This Borderland is traversed by the great roads to thenorth, to Lincolnshire, the Fen District and North includes the valley of the Ouse and many interestinghistoric towns and a host of picturesque villages whichthe visitor to the old country too often omits from hisexplorations in favour of show pla
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 . East Anglia which, within its narrowestlimits, comprises the counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. This Borderland is traversed by the great roads to thenorth, to Lincolnshire, the Fen District and North includes the valley of the Ouse and many interestinghistoric towns and a host of picturesque villages whichthe visitor to the old country too often omits from hisexplorations in favour of show places further afield. In Outer London itself many delightful trips can betaken away from the beaten track, and through acountryside which, from its seclusion, might be 200 milesinstead of 20 to 30 miles from the great Metropolis. Hert-fordshire falls within this area, one of the most peacefuland charming portions of that leafy county being thedistrict around Buntingford. A tour of the borderland indicated might well form thepreliminary to a tour of East Anglia. If we choose theroad that leads to Amersham, Aylesbury, Banbury andthence to Warwick and Birmingham—the Metropolis of 46. OUTER LONDON AND THE EAST ANGLIAN R0RT:)ER. the Midlands and the great centre of the metal and hardwareindustries—we shall have the opportunity of seeing Harrow-on-the-Hill, crowned with its 14th century church, whosespire is a landmark for miles around. Harrow School isone of the big three English public schools that areworld famous, but the oldest part of the present buildingsare not earlier than 1615. Byron was a Harrow boy anda flat stone in the churchyard on which he would often liedown and gaze at the splendid scener\ around is called Byrons tomb, but, in reality, it is the tomb of a personnamed Peachey. Eight miles beyond Harrow is Rickmansworth, aquaint little town in which, at Basing House, William Pennand his wife Gulielma lived for a few years. Through Watford we take a somewhat roundabou
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