The cottages and the village life of rural England . ANNE HATHAWAYS COTTAGE, SHOTTERY. COTTAGES, EAST HAGBOURNE There is a calm beauty about this village street at East Hag-bourne, Berkshire, that is altogether restful and satisfying to thesenses. The cottage is a fine example of rural domestic architec-ture. It is an L-shaped house, which has seen better days, andprobably was formerly a yeomans home. It has been divided intoseveral cottages. Its date is about the end of the sixteenth orbeginning of the seventeenth century. The interstices between thetimbers have been filled with brickwork arr
The cottages and the village life of rural England . ANNE HATHAWAYS COTTAGE, SHOTTERY. COTTAGES, EAST HAGBOURNE There is a calm beauty about this village street at East Hag-bourne, Berkshire, that is altogether restful and satisfying to thesenses. The cottage is a fine example of rural domestic architec-ture. It is an L-shaped house, which has seen better days, andprobably was formerly a yeomans home. It has been divided intoseveral cottages. Its date is about the end of the sixteenth orbeginning of the seventeenth century. The interstices between thetimbers have been filled with brickwork arranged in herring-bonefashion. The whole grouping of the cottages forms a prettypicture, and the peaceful little village street seems to sendIts own deep quiet to restore oar hearts. LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND the much-beloved authoress of Our Village. The little hamletwhich she has made immortal is Three Mile Cross, near Reading, inBerkshire, where the descendants live of those quaint people whoappear in her book, and I often ride along a grassy lane near the tinycottage where the autho
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