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Originally posted by Jesse-Joe:
quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
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I could live there too Jesse but I think I'd have to build a new house, no offense intended but they look drafty.Bill 
Yes that my well be but not half as drafty as this old "house" in my hometown
Ruins of Sherborne "Old" castle
from the "wiki"
"In the Civil War Sherborne was strongly Royalist, and the old castle was ruined by General Fairfax of the Parliamentary forces in 1645."
after that one Walter Rawleigh nicked some of the stones from the old castle to build his "New Castle" nearby
Maybe your right Bill, but they are so beautiful. And look at the scenery. Awesome part of the world... ~Jesse~ [/QUOTE]Encouraged by Jesse's appreciation I am going to risk another uncalled for verbal attack from down under to say:-
Yes my home county of Dorset is a spectacular and scenic area
Shaftesbury was rechristened "Sherton Abbas" by the great Dorset novelist
Thomas Hardy
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/johnfowles/Thomas_Hardy's_England.jpg
a book co-authored by my late
namesake
and about 30 miles south is another fine collection of village cottages in another real "Abbas"
Milton Abbas
which as you can read was created by "Joseph Damer (later Lord Milton, 1st Earl of Dorchester) who had the whole town
demolished because he disliked its proximity to his great house (built adjacent to the abbey), and employed a rather famous man called Capability Brown to erect a new model village half a mile away. Damer moved those inhabitants he could not drive away to the new village. Only one thatched cottage of the old town survives under the hill, and most of the old village is
under the lake. One stubborn inhabitant refused to move and was flooded out by Mr Damer. The villager later won his case in court. The "new" village was built all at once in the 1780's along the sides of a single sloping street. The thatched cottages are evenly spaced"
There you have it today's Geography,History AND English Literature lessons all in one fell swoop
John