Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-04
HIDDEN hooks IN ENGLAND
Beautiful Resting Places in
the Midland Hills.
RARE CHARMS OF TEWKESBURY
The Lazy RestfulneSS of
Glorious Malvern.
In Ancient Worcester, Where the Old and
New Combine---Picturesqu Broadway
and the Two 0uaintest Inns in All
England---Idyllic Hours in Idyllic
Spots.

! Special Correspondence of Gazette and Journal
CIRENcEsrER, ENG.. July 4.-One does
I not know hundredth part of England
even after years of travel among her his
toric scenes and about her countless
ahrines,
feel this more and more when, after
firing Of grand old beaten paths, step
aside, but a step il sometimes seems, and
find maze upon maze of sweet old hooks,
wonderfully winsome in collective or in
dividual aspects; and these could never
be exhausted, if one set out to explore
for such as these and know them never so
little when found, during the natural
course of lifetime.
il seems to me that the west of England.
say the western of the midland counties
furnishes the most extraordinary number
vi these half mountain eeries Gou need
not go SO far south or west rs Devon and
Somerset, nor even into Wales, where
scenery has more the elements of wild aud
savage grandeur. and where the good folk
who cGl speak English rs well as you can
pride themselves IN making you believe
they cannot speak il a all, and that Welsh
was the language Of Adam and Eve
Neither will you have 10 60 so far as the
lake district, which is all sublimity and
hotel and posting bills; nor to NOrthum-
berland and Durham, verdnreless and sug-
Eestive of coal; nor again to Yorkshire,
where the shuddering fogs flap along the
gfewsome moors.
But here in the very heart of England,
where anybody that has Two DAYS time
though he should have two months in
stead and two stout legs, can come from
any great English city almost as III a holt
lday stroll, are these myriad places of rest
'fuiness and beauty hidden coy from the
globe trotters lorgnetteS i'll the glcns and
hollows of these midland bills, with his
tories reaching farther back than the time
of the Saxnns' first coming, with the moss
of ages upon them, and yet all Of them as
sweet and fresh as the dew trickling from
the loftiest grasses of Gleeve Clouds ami
Broadway beacon, which stand like grim
old towers above the CGtswoid hills
know the live" American tourist is
hardly worthy of himself IT, having
arrived il Liverpool on Tuesday or Fri
day evening, he has not done Chester
dashed through bennington. nodded in Il
friendly way to the painted eitigy of
Shakespeare, become tired of London,
glanced at Keniworth and Warwick and
swept around through the lake district to
to Glasgow, the Irossachs Edinburgh,
Abbotsford and MGlrose, in fact EEK
hausted Great Britain as he naively and
quite correctly ptits il, before the first
week has barely rolled around.
But if this sort of person could learn that
the best results of travel come from idling
rather than cycloning through foreign
space, and could get shunted away from
railways and then meet with some sort Of
OBTAINING accident that would hold his
lungs eyes and heart within region like
this long enough to get them used to its
citation and radiance, there would be one
less ricochettinE monstrosity among men
and that much of blessed calm would
come along the maelstrOm lines of travel
A pleasant way g reach this lovely re-
gion is through Warwiekshirc. STOP d
day or more at Stratford if vpu like, and
loiter about the church beside the Avon
Then get M old bnatmaI, mind YOU an
old and garruous boatnlan, to row you
down the historic stream He will tell
You more about Will Shakespeare and his
times than if the mighty bard had brcu
his schuplnate. Do not let him row last
Give him time to rest aud desralnt lllol
the. origin Of Roman roads and barr0wS
and Cronllcchs, and above ali give hin
time for folklore tales and bugabuos ant
whispered mysteries of the l0rdlv hall!
high up among the parks and demcsnes
Never care for the passing hours. Thu
matches of cottages lean everywhere alunl
the Avon-almpSt to its brink NutI have
no need for an inn. With your peasan
companion YOU will be welcome every
where at night among the pcasantry III
and by you will come to the wales anon!
the Cotswolds Then YOU will see hamct
and villages 1otting the valleys, imhrd,ler
in orchards, clustering on the hllsdcs
perched upon the heights, and all iii a set
ting of lush orchards, waving fields witllit
cheCkered lines Of hawthorn hedges o
denser rows at lines, ana these iii turf
bdEhtll Ny uAllkN VI forest llElllltNhl. all II
snch dronng 4uiet, ample content an,
smiling opulenCc that fill Of the wine,
exultation of il all, Won again and agaii
irresistiby cxc)aini, Here is Already Il
last"
By and by your boat comes under th
shadows Of Il gray old abbey town. Nea
il is DeCrhurst, where kings older thai
Alfred worshippetl. Tie Avon has sun,
itself to sleep III the bosom Of the ,ilve
Severn. and there, by Olney, Cnut an,
Edmund lronside met and divided Eng
land between Dane and saxon Ncarr
still to the gray old abbey town is til
Bloody Meadow" where the War Of III
Roses was decided.
Back past this now peaceful scene, pas
old matched cottages, bright gardens am
green fields, there rises upon thc stranger
sight mighty silver gray Old abbey
is the abbey OF lewkeSUurv, Ii i NOR
than 500 years old, and the norman pillar
OF its dim Old nave are he hr.sest an
highest i'll England. Few of the EngliS
abbeys, or. indeed, Of the great Euglisl
cathedrals. contain the materials nf hlstpr
and story which Tewkeshury possesses,
Then what wonderful charm there is i
the old half timberei houses OF lcwke,
bury. They lean over the shadow street
as though they had come back from
misty past to crane their ncCks and head
into thC affairs Of this bright and noder
time. Here You have Chester Brtsto
Exeter and Coventry almost in one In tn
In the gables with their crownn
1innacles, in the p0rcheS doors mGlliune
windows and huge cnimueys IN the owe
hanging of stories and projection /,
windows, they are 10 more quaint MI
curious than their interiors. With TIL
spacious low CeiiinEud rooms, panclc
with oak of cbon hlaCkne>s elabHratrl
carved and urIlamcntcd. and with liissagc
hooks, inches small rooms, cupboards In
presses bewildcring in Number
All of those who have read rIultu Tia
flax" will find in Tewkcs bury d clas,
charm than IN abbey and ancient house
Tewkeshury grCeu was Abel Fletcher
lawn, Tho cemalis arbor theycly hrdg
and many delights 50 pleasantly rcturp
in John Halifax" are still carefully ~
served, Dinah MGiock Craik lowell J!
Tewkesbury passioaately, She snmmerc
at Malvern, but this mellow rpstfu! plau
was her attcCtionate hnuut Over ia Il
huge abbey, among some of the richie
and grandest cccIeaastic monuments ,
England, there has been lately placrl
fitting tablet to tho memory vi this zoo
and talented woman.
A two hours walk will bring You
bright and glowing Malvern, set iigll II
against the glorious Malvern htHe II
the quieteSt, hauGsomest, ,unirst III;
diest, LATEST inland resort in all Ell,unt
Thousands are here. but there 4, I'D q
bowing, no iOstling, no hurrving Ever,
body saunters. GdHeS. dreams A Sen.
of lazy, nnronstr4incd enjoyment bropC
over the entire place ana region III
waters and the mountain air bring all til
people here; hat these are NOT II titlp 4