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Wessex - Charles G. Harper
Charles G. Harper
Wessex
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066198671
Table of Contents
PREFACE
WESSEX
CHAPTER I WAREHAM—BERE REGIS—THE HEATHS
CHAPTER II CORFE CASTLE—SWANAGE
CHAPTER III WOOLBRIDGE HOUSE—LULWORTH COVE—OWERMOIGNE—WEYMOUTH
CHAPTER IV UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
—DORCHESTER—MAIDEN CASTLE—BRIDPORT—WEST BAY
CHAPTER V CERNE ABBAS—THE VALE OF BLACKMORE—SHERBORNE—SHAFTESBURY
CHAPTER VI YATTON—CHEDDAR CHEESE AND CHEDDAR CLIFFS—WELLS—GLASTONBURY—THE ISLE OF ATHELNEY—DUNSTER
CHAPTER VII NORTON ST. PHILIP—BATH—CORSHAM—CASTLE COMBE
INDEX
PREFACE
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This
is a modest, gossipy and allusive sketch of a delightful part of England, designed rather to arouse the interest and the curiosity of those not already acquainted with what I will call the Middle West
than to fully satisfy it. If in this connection you choose to regard the author of these pages as a commercial traveller in the interest of Wessex, displaying samples of the picturesque wares the West of England can offer the tourist, it will entirely fit the humour in which they were penned. To aid the medium of words is added a feast of colour in the accompanying selected views, which show the lovely golden russet interior of Sherborne Abbey, the misty rich blue haze of Blackmore Vale, the architectural majesty of Wells, and much else that awaits the traveller in Dorset and Somerset.
C.G.H.
WESSEX
CHAPTER I
WAREHAM—BERE REGIS—THE HEATHS
Table of Contents
The
Wessex of which I shall treat in these gossiping pages is that Wessex of romance and of the great dairy-farms, which has been little touched by the influence of railways. Hampshire and Wiltshire—Winchester and Salisbury—have become too closely in touch with London to stand so fully upon the ancient ways as does Dorset, with the greater part of its north-western neighbour, Somerset. But in these rural territories the countryman still talks the old broad Do’set and Zummerzet speech, in which the letter o
in every possible circumstance becomes a,
as you will perceive in that old rhyme beginning:
A harnet zet in a holler tree,
A proper spiteful twoad was he.
And thus he zung as he did zet,
My sting is as zharp as a bagginet.
And they think, too, the olden thoughts.
Nothing can give one a greater sense of the difference between the exploited modernized coast-line and the real old Wessex than the journey from up-to-date Bournemouth to Poole, that olden nest of smugglers, and thence across to the untamed heaths and to Wareham. In this way, then, we will begin our exploration of Wessex.
Wareham is a little town which has been left to drowse peacefully in its old days. Nothing has happened in Wareham since its almost complete destruction by fire (1762), an event which here as distinctly marks an era as does the Great Fire of London in the City. It not only rubricates the local table of events with a glowing finger, but the rebuilding necessary after it has set a specious stamp of modernity upon the place, to which its long and troubled history and its two ancient churches give an emphatic denial. Mr. Hardy styles Wareham Anglebury,
and it is a name which well befits a town whose story is so greatly concerned with the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Dorset and the fortunes of the older kingdom of Wessex. The original founders of Wareham, who were probably antecedent to the