In Unfamiliar England

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Thos. D. Murphy. In Unfamiliar England

In Unfamiliar England

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PREFACE

In Unfamiliar England. I. SOME NOOKS ABOUT LONDON

II. WANDERINGS IN EAST ANGLIA

III. SOME MIDLAND NOOKS AND THE WASHINGTON COUNTRY

IV. MEANDERINGS FROM COVENTRY TO EXETER

V. RAMBLES IN THE WEST COUNTRY

VI. ODD CORNERS OF THE WELSH BORDER

VII. A WEEK IN SOUTH WALES

VIII. SOME NOOKS AND CORNERS

IX. THE BYRON COUNTRY

X. FROM YORKSHIRE COAST TO BARNARD CASTLE

XI. LAKELAND AND THE YORKSHIRE DALES

XII. SOME NORTH COUNTRY SHRINES

XIII. ACROSS THE TWEED

XIV. MORE YORKSHIRE WANDERINGS

XV. ROUND ABOUT WILTSHIRE

XVI. DORSET AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT

XVII. SOUTH ENGLAND NOOKS

XVIII. FROM DUBLIN TO CORK

XIX. THROUGH SOUTHERN IRELAND

XX. SOME ODDS AND ENDS

XXI. LUDLOW TOWN

INDEX

INDEX TO MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES

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Thos. D. Murphy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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KIRBY HALL.

Although we had visited Coventry before—and, as it chanced, re-visited it many times later—we did not find our interest in the charming old city lessen, and it occurs to us more than ever as the best center for Warwickshire. Kenilworth is only five miles, Warwick twice as far, and Stratford eight miles farther. At Coventry one may be thoroughly comfortable, which can hardly be said of the inns at Warwick or Stratford. Americans always seek the Red Horse at the latter place because of its associations with Irving; but there is little more than the room our gentle traveler occupied, the chair he sat in and the “scepter” wherewith he was wont to stir up a cheerful fire in his grate, to induce one to return. But in Coventry, at the ancient though much re-modeled King’s Head, one strikes the happy medium of English hotels. It has the homelikeness and freedom of the smaller country inns without their discomforts, and it does not force upon one the painful formalities of the resort hotels, with their terrible English table d’hote dinners. So when we were established at the King’s Head, in spacious rooms, with plenty of tables and chairs—articles uncommon enough to merit special mention—there was always a temptation to linger.

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