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From Hereford, country lanes pass
undulating hills, pastures, woods and
orchards to Ledbury, another market town,
where some of the best examples of 16th and
17th Century half-timbered buildings may
still be seen; inns leaning drunkenly at
incredible angles across the narrow streets,
some of which are propped up on old oak
posts.
Travel north from Ledbury to Bromyard,
leaving the main road and going across
country through the Malvern Hills. Although
the hills, mainly in Worcestershire, are a
comparatively small range the countryside
around is wild and the views from them
unsurpassed.
Bromyard is referred to in the Domesday
survey of 1086, and its narrow, winding
streets still follow the original medieval
pattern. But note particularly Tower Hill
House in Pump Street, a fine, half-timbered
building where Charles Stuart took refuge in
1664.
Next is Leomister, once a wool market. One
of its finest buildings is•Grange Court, now
within a public park. Grange Court was once
Ithe town hall and was erected in 1633. Two
centuries later it was sold and dismantled
because it hindered traffic on the main street.
For years it lay neglected in a builder's yard
before it was re -erected on its present site.
West from Leominster are three of
Hereford's prettiest villages, all within a few
miles of each other.
Eardsland, often described as a dream
village, is the first and through it runs the tiny
Arrow River, down to which gardens slope;
Woobley whose inns and houses are
beautifully preserved, follows and is a
neighbour of Pembridge and its 14th Century
church.
Discover
East Anglia
There are corners of this earth a traveller
could return to time and again without ever
tiring of them; corners which, in part, are
remote, or appear to be: Marshy, flat,
shapeless almost and which, for lack of
seductive contours, attract only those who
seek a physical beauty other than that
contained in mountains, hills and craggy
coastlines.
One such area is East Anglia, the Kingdom
of Anglo-Saxon England, embracing the
"Parts of Holland," the counties of Norfolk,
Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire
and silvers of Essex.
It was here, northeast of London, in an area
of rivers, canals -and fens, market towns,
seaside towns and medieval cities that this
wanderer once lived, learned and laughed,
and who returns to find that little has changed
over the years.
Change, of course, has come to those
sectors which nudge the capital's dormitor-
ies, yet the salt tang of the sea and_lhe special
smell of kippers are as strong as they ever
were.
The marshes and the surrounding
countryside remain much as Constable, a
favorite son, knew them.
The evidence of invasion and occupation by
Romans, Angels and Danes stays visible And
stretches of land which have known the sea's
wrath show the scars of erosion.
East Anglia is another side to rural
England, from Colchester, Essex's captial, to
the cathedral city of Norwich and the
university town of Cambridge, that "little
ruined city near the Granta," as it was
described a dozen centuries ago.
It is another side to coastal England, from
Yarmouth to Lowestoft to Felistowe,
Norfolk's and Suffolk's seaside towns, where
the air is ever bracing and where the sea has
been known to show its strength
It was the anger of tide and storm which
devoured huge tracts of land and whole towns
like the medieval borough of Dunwich, but
which also made one of the loveliest inland
waterway complexes in Britain - the Norfolk
Broads.
Here, now, are 200 miles of navigable
waters known to holiday-makers who come,
year after year, to "mess about in boats" and
to drift along the easy routes for a week or
longer in hired yachts or, cabin cruisers.
East Anglia is that side of historic England
where the influence of the Romans was felt
most.
Colchester is the capital city of Old King
Cole, the ancient chieftain Cunobelin. Today,
it is a market town known for such disparate
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