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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> IN THIS SUCCESSOR to Images of the Quantocks and Quantock Miscellany one aspect of the Quantocks which has been explored further is the landowners: the Luttrells of East Quantoxhead the Trollope-Bellews of Crowcombe the Acland-Hoods of Fairfield and the Pophams of Bagborough descend in an unbroken family line either from the middle ages or for several hundred years and the Warmingtons of Cothelstone for two hundred. Other long established landowners the Tyntes of Halswell the Crosses of Fyne Court and the St. Albyns of Alfoxton left only in the 20th century. Two very grand establishments such as that of the Earls of Egmont of Enmore and the Labouch?res/Stanleys of Quantock Lodge have come and gone in a shorter time. All these families feature notable figures sometimes for more than one generation and occasionally notorious Another rich field is distinguished visitors especially scientists drawn to Andrew Crosse at Fyne Court and writers and other intellectuals to Coleridge and Wordsworth or to the landscape a constant theme of whose work is the beauty of the Quantocks and those two qualities remoteness and tranquility which lingered as late as the 1960s and are now greatly diminished but preserved in their work. (LL)