Sentence:  ...belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a <WSD>village</WSD> bowered in orchards,... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.