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Remains, in Verse and Prose, of Francis Kilvert [ed. by W.l. Nichols].
Remains in Verse and Prose of Francis Kilvert - ed. by W.l. Nichols Author:Francis Kilvert General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: S. W. Simms Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sel... more »ect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: RICHARD GRAVES OF CLAVERTON. Rcadtefore the Bath Literary Club, Dec. nth, 1857.] r I ""HERE are few of the residents in Bath, or its - occasional visitors, who are unacquainted with the romantic village of Claverton. Situated in a spacious valley, diversified by all the accompaniments of wood, water, and graceful undulations of ground, its little church with its ivy-mantled tower nestling among trees at the foot of a grassy slope, its manor house crowning the hill above, and its elegant and commodious rectory occupying a site near the church below, while the whole overlooks the varied and tasteful domain of Warleigh rising from the opposite bank of the Avon, -- it presents a combination of picturesque features rarely centreing in one locality. Many of us recollect the old rectory standing on the same site as the present, but of a far humbler character, a long low building, beneath the level of the road, possessing nevertheless an air of comfort and respectability suited to its appropriation. This old house was for more than fifty years the residence of the Rev. RICHARD Graves, rector of Claverton. I have been favoured by Henry Duncan Skrine, esq. of Warleigh, with the following extract from his grandfather's interesting work on the Rivers of England: " About midway in this ascent, overlooking Warleigh and the river, the pleasing village of Claverton seems to hang suspended, where its large gothic mansion(renowned in the civil wars) and its little church, with the pyramidical tomb of the late much esteemed Mr. Allen, are striking objects. Neither is its parsonage less ...« less