Quiz of the week
1) Which English county has the longest road network?
2) What’s the name for a male hare?
3) Who wrote the Tony-award-winning play The Homecoming?
4) Which is Britain’s second-largest inhabited castle, after Windsor?
5) To which plant family does the apple tree belong?
Word of the week
Hiemal (adjective) To do with, or occurring, in winter
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE December 2, 1922
WITH the increase in the volume of traffic that our roads have to bear, proposals have been made that [they] might be divided into tracks. Obviously, the full materialisation of this idea could only come after many years of gradual development, but it has been suggested that, as a
