Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-24
BEAUTIES OF BRITAIN
Island Rich in Scenery and
Historical Associations.
TRAVELLING COSTS LITTLE
Chief Points Of Interest Can Be Ex.
plored in Few Weeks.
ANCIENT RUINS ACCESSIBLE
Battlefelds Also Easy to Reach.
shakespeare's Country Is
Popular Mecca.
ANCIENT RUINS ACCESSIBLE

II my fellow-cOuntrymen would fully
realize the varied beauties Of English
scenery and the vast wealth Of Engiand's
historical associations, they must come
west. Thus wrote John Lothrop Not
ley, while revising the proofs Of the Rise
OF the Dutch Republic in one Of those
verdant and picturesque Dorsetshire val
leys, sloping gently upward from the
sea coast toward the Via Inceiana,
that great western road Of Roman times
Of which unmistakable traces can still be
identified at various points between Dor
chester and Exeter. The words Of Mot
ley may be taken as correctly describing
the singular picturesqueness Of almost
the whole of that vast tract Of country, to
every part of which the Great Western
railway affords rapid and convenient ac-
cess.
Travelling in England Is no longer the
exclusive privilege of the millionaire. and
il Is now possible, at very moderate
cost. to explore, within the space Of
few weeks, all the chief points of anti
quarian, scenic or commercial interest
lying between Paddington and Penzance
on the one side. and Liverpool, Fishguard
and Weymouth on the other. Many note
worthy places have given their names to
prosperous and popuious townships and
lantic, the citizens of which now take a
special pleasure in visiting the former
localities. not infreQuently In quest OF
some remote ancestor, who may turn out
to be the founder Of a powerful New
England family.
This distinction can be claimed by the
cities Of Bath. Chester. Bristol. Glouces-
ter, Salisbury. Manchester, Winchester.
Wells. Oxford, Worcester, Birmingham
and Liverpool, and. among others, by
the towns Of Plymouth, Reading, Dor
chester. Milford. bennington, Weymouth
Taunton. Newport and Wellington, as
well as by the Peninsula OF Portland nd
the Island of Jersey. frequent ex-
change of hospitality takes place nova
days between the corporations of towns
bearing the same name, but situate be-
yond the seas The recent representation
of the daughter" Baths of the new world
at the Bath pageant Of 1909 may be re-
garded as an instance OF the linking of
the old world with the new.
Forty Daughter" Plymouths.
1t was from Plymouth (where many
Americans now commence their explora-
ton Of England) that the Pilgrim Fathers
set sail on that momentous voyage Of the
Mayfiower of which the tercentenary Is
now not many years ahead of US. There
are at least forty daughter Plymouths
beyond the seas.
II is from Paddington that the traveller
must start for Royal Windsor. or oxford,
or Bath. or that delightful expedition into
Shakespeare's country which is destined
hereafter to become one Of the most cher
ished and agreeable memories of his new
er-to-be-forgotten English tour. The very
names of Windsor. oxford, Stratford-on-
Avon and Bath suffice to conjure up Wis
ions of those glories and traditions Of
which the American and the Englishman
are today equally proud. II our visitor
has a fancy for the folk lore of remote
antiquity ne can investigate the Arthur
ran legend 'in stu" either on the cliffs
Of Cornwall or amid the rocks OF
Scilly or in Avalonan Glastonbury itself
The student of ecclesiastical history or
medieval architecture will be able to
compress a visit to many Of the famous
.cathedrals of England into a single fort
night. or even less.
Possibly the traveller is specially inter-
ested in the battlefelds of history. If this