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John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne
The book examines the history of two English parishes, Hursley and Otterbourne, with a focus on their development over time, the significant individuals associated with them, and the socio-economic changes that have shaped these communities.
"John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a historical account. The book examines the history of two English parishes, Hursley and Otterbourne, with a focus on their development over time, the significant individuals associated with them, and the socio-economic changes that have shaped these communities.
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The South Downs of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an upper deposit of peaty, boggy soil, all having been brought down by the rivers of which the Itchen and the Test remain.
On the western side of the Itchen, exactly at the border where the chalk gives way to the other deposits, lies the ground of which this memoir attempts to speak. It is uneven ground, varied by undulations, with gravelly hills, rising above valleys filled with clay, and both alike favourable to the growth of woods. Fossils of belemnite, cockles (cardium), and lamp-shells (terebratula) have been found in the chalk, and numerous echini, with the pentagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shepherds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are also scattered about the country, exercising the minds of some observers, who saw in certain of them Druidical altars, with channels for the flow of the blood, while others discerned in these same grooves the scraping of the ice that brought them down in the Glacial age.
But we must pass the time when the zoophytes were at work on our chalk, when the lamp-shells rode at anchor on shallow waves, when the cockles sat “at their doors in a rainbow frill,” and the belemnites spread their cuttlefish arms to the sea, and darkened the water for their enemies with their store of ink.
Contents
- 01Chapter I Merdon and Otterbourne
- 02Chapter II Mediæval Gifts
- 03Chapter III Reformation Times
- 04Extraordinary Occurrences, Etc.
- 05Chapter IV Puritan Times
- 06Chapter V Customs of the Manor of Merdon
- 07Chapter VI Cranbury and Brambridge
- 08Chapter VII the Building at Hursley
- 09Chapter VIII Old Otterbourne
- 10Chapter IX Church Building
- 11Chapter X Hursley Church
- 12Chapter XI the Golden Days of Hursley
- 13Chapter XII Hursley Vicarage
- 14Chapter XIII Later Changes
- 15Chapter XIV a Survey
- 16Chapter XV Words and Phrases
- 17Words
- 18Village Specifics.
- 19Phrases
- 20Chapter XVI Natural History
- 21Birds
- 22Flowers
- 23Crucifera
- 24Caryophylleæ
- 25St. John’s-Wort Tribe
- 26Cranesbill Tribe
- 27Leguminose
- 28Rose Tribe
- 29Willow-herb Tribe
- 30Saxifragea
- 31Umbellifera
- 32Madder Tribe
- 33Compositæ
- 34Gentian Tribe
- 35Borage Tribe
- 36Labiatæ
- 37The Lily Tribe
- 38Reeds
- 39Grasses
- 40Ferns, etc.
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 194 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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