Selections from Cobbett's Rural Rides |
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abbey acres Appleshaw Ashmansworth Beaulieu beautiful Beuley called Calshot Castle Canterbury chalk churches Cirencester clay Cobbett coppices debt distress Dover England English farm FAVERSHAM feet fields flogging Folkestone Forest France French game laws gardens gentlemen ground half Hampshire hares hill hogs hops hundred HURSTBOURN TARRANT Isle of Thanet James Cobbett Kent labourers land landlords loam London look Lord Lyndhurst Maidstone marsh martello towers means millions ministers miserable morning never oaks parish park passed Peel's Bill persons poor poor-rates population pounds present pretty Reigate rents rich road Rural Rides sheep shillings a bushel side smock-frock sort spot square miles stone Sussex taxes Templars things thirty thousand tithes told Tonbridge town trees Uphusband valley village Weald Westerham wheat William William Cobbett William the Conqueror Winchester woods