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Quiz of the week

1) Which poet wrote Ozymandias?

2) What is the largest natural lake in England?

3) More than half of hedgehogs found on the Channel island of Alderney have spines of which colour?

4) Which clever (if mischievous) sheep is the creation of animator and film-maker Nick Park?

5) Which Roman emperor launched the invasion of Britain in AD43?

Word of the week

Horripilating (adjective) Causing the hair to bristle because of cold or dread, causing goosebumps

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE August 18, 1923

WHAT a magnificent vision it is on a fine morning when you come over from Selborne towards Midhurst and have the western

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