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Village England
Taken from the highly successful
Obserer Masazine series, Village
England is a catalogue of all that is
best in England, (Our best-loved
COunty towns are introduced by
WTiters who have special feelings of
affection for them, and in subsequent
makers often miss are described and
the active visitor and armchair
pages the nooks and crannies which
Visitors, day trippers, or holiday-
explained in a text that will delight
traveller alike.
Twenty-four towns have been chosen
as centres for exploration, and the
book then wanders through some of
the prettiest of the surrounding
villages. Each section ends with
details of interesting things to visit,
museums, boat trips, national parks,
z00s, model railways, good places to
eat and drink... and much more.
The idea of the book is to avoid the
over-populated, the familiar beaten
track. For that reason it leaves out
the Home Counties and skirts the
most popular tourist towns
Stratford, Oxford, Windsor. The
beautiful. There are over 170
the essence of England and an
result is an introduction to the true
England: quiet, picturesque, calm and
photographs in colour, a distillation of
indispensable traveller's guide.