EPW029351 ENGLAND (1929). The Green, St Michael's Church and the village, Aldbourne, 1929

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Manylion

Pennawd [EPW029351] The Green, St Michael's Church and the village, Aldbourne, 1929
Cyfeirnod EPW029351
Dyddiad September-1929
Dolen
Enw lle ALDBOURNE
Plwyf ALDBOURNE
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 426455, 175684
Hydred / Lledred -1.6190117850014, 51.479008498119
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SU265757

Pinnau

Illustrated in 'English Downland' (1936) - The Crown Hotel

MB
Saturday 4th of May 2013 11:44:56 AM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

'Albourne, which lies between the Lambourn Downs to the east and the Marlborough Downs to the west, is the truest downland village of them all .. [it] rests between some of the grandest hill-country in Wiltshire ..' Massingham, op cit.

MB
Saturday 4th of May 2013 11:56:10 AM
'Aldbourne, cushioned in by elm and beech .. umber roofed from afar, white among its airy, many-cornered streets .. its building materials are of flint and "clunch" or chalk blocks cut from the harder seams of sarsen stones and of thatch ..'

H. J. Massingham, English Downland, B. T. Batsford, 1936, 21



Massingham adds '.. The cottage roofing is mainly thatch or red tiles whose warm tones perfectly with the earth-browns of the thatch, together with the mass-produced blue slating, which many feel to be much too abundant in the chalk lands ..'

MB
Saturday 4th of May 2013 11:52:09 AM