Gorgeous GORGES
Nov 06, 2020
3 minutes
Henry Alford was a little-known Victorian clergyman who grew up with his widowed father in Steeple Ashton, about 20 miles east of the Mendip Hills. He briefly taught at Cambridge, translated Homer’s Odyssey from the Ancient Greek and, in 1857, was appointed to the Deanery of Canterbury by the then Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston. Nevertheless, Alford’s greatest achievement was arguably the penning of his poem,
Mendip Hills over Wells.
In attempting to
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