. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . ther on is a farm house at the cross-roadleading to Moorby and Wood Enderby. No wonder that thequestion Where is Scrivelsby? is often asked, even bv thosewho are travelling straight through it. But if the enterprisingtraveller will take the trouble to pursue his quest, he will findsnugly hidden away behind the Court, and on the north sideof the park, a little cluster of houses, constituting the realvillage or town as it is called of Scrielsby, far away fromthe road and a good mile from
. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . ther on is a farm house at the cross-roadleading to Moorby and Wood Enderby. No wonder that thequestion Where is Scrivelsby? is often asked, even bv thosewho are travelling straight through it. But if the enterprisingtraveller will take the trouble to pursue his quest, he will findsnugly hidden away behind the Court, and on the north sideof the park, a little cluster of houses, constituting the realvillage or town as it is called of Scrielsby, far away fromthe road and a good mile from the Church. Here there areno less than three farm houses and four labourers cottages !Retracing his steps and coming back to the Lion Gate, andgoing southwards he will come to an old-fashioned farm house,prettily situated; and half a mile further on, the Rectory, withtwo cottages hard bv on the site of the old house which wasburnt down in 1804. And this is Scrivelsby, which in spite ofthe Dymokes, would probablv have been little heard of outsidethe county, had it not been one of the places enumerated by. UpK- i^*: GARDENERS a Pliutuijiaph hy Misars. Poullon d- Huns, Lunduit. THE VILLAGE. 5 Sir Walter Scott as forming part of tlie appanage of the heroof his immortal poem. However scanty mav be the knowledge of the sourcefrom which the championship springs, everyone has read orheard of the Lord of Scrivelbaye, and the majority ofreaders will insist still on believing that the Marmion of SirWalter Scotts poem was one of the Scrivelsby Champions;and it has even been gravely argued on no better foundationthan that which the poem aifords, that the Marmions remainedat Scrivelsby much longer than is generally supposed. So hardis it for sober fact to hold its own against poetical poets and the writers of historical romances claim forthemselves a free hand, and introduce historical names, andtravesty historical facts, at their own will and pleasure. Andas the rea
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