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Village Squire, 1976-03, Page 231 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 Listowel Travel Bureau OFFERS ABC Charters Newlyweds get more fine furnishings into their homes for less money shopping at. TO: •London •Amsterdam *Paris •Frankfurt •Other destinations INQUIRE ABOUT OUR EUROPEAN TOURS LISTOWEL TRAVEL BUREAU 163 MAIN ST LISTOWEL PHONE 291-4100 SEE OUR: WEST STREET Just Off The Square GODERICH Pine 4 pc. Bedroom Suite by Kilgour -Pine chesterfield -Love seat, chair and tables by Troister ‘ItLAGE SQUIRE/MARCH Wt. 21