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THE ENGLISH are a remarkable and singular people. They owe much to being an island race and much to the beauty and landscape of their island. They owe much to all those who have settled in England and fallen in love with this uncommon land. Celts, Romans, Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Jews, Normans, Huguenots, Flemings and Walloons – the English have borrowed something from all these peoples, and have forged the disparate elements together in a very English way, be it in language, customs, identity or character.

In return the English have given much back. The English language, the language of Shakespeare, more widely spoken than any other, ‘Parliamentary’ democracy, ‘the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried,’ according to Winston Churchill, cricket, football, rugby, the Industrial Revolution, railways, the pub, the class system, Georgian architecture, Alice in Wonderland, afternoon tea.

This book travels to every corner of England to discover the people and the flavour that each has contributed to England and the English. You cannot pin down or define the English, you can only listen to their stories, learn something of their ways and enjoy the experience.

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For Uncle Peter

THE ENGLISH COUNTIES

THE ENGLISH CHARACTER is defined by county as much as by anything. A Yorkshireman is instantly recognisable from a Cornishman, a Geordie from a Man of Kent, by accent, by outlook, by appearance.

Hence, I Never Knew That About the English is divided into the 39 historic English counties and the Vale of the White Horse – counties that come down to us from the dawn of England, that have moulded their inhabitants, conferred distinctive characteristics and blessings upon them, presented them with different challenges and loyalties.

The story of the English people is intertwined with the English counties, and the bureaucrats have sought in vain to separate them. I would not dare to try – nor would I wish to.

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Index of Places

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Abbey Road Studios, St John’s Wood, Middlesex (I)

Abbostbury, Dorset (I)

Abbot’s Bromley, Staffordshire (I)

Abbot’s Langley, Hertfordshire (I)

Aintree, Liverpool. Lancashire (I), (II), (III)

Albert Memorial, London (I)

Aldeburgh, Suffolk (I)

Aldwincle, Northamptonshire (I), (II)

Alexandra Palace, Middlesex (I)

Alnwick, Northumberland (I)

Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire (I)

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Sottery, Warwickshire (I)

Appleby Castle, Westmorland (I)

Appleby-in-Westmorland (I)

Apsley, Hertfordshire (I)

Arbury Farm, Warwickshire (I)

Archangel, Russia (I)

Ashington, Northumberland (I)

Aslockton, Nottinghamshire (I)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (I)

Avalon, Isle of, Somerset (I)

Avebury, Wiltshire (I), (II)

Axminster, Devon (I)

Banbury Cross, Oxfordshire (I)

Banbury, Oxfordshire (I)

Banqueting House, London (I)

Barcheston, Warwickshire (I)

Barford, Warwickshire (I)

Barnack, Northamptonshire (I)

Barnsdale Forest, Yorkshire (I)

Barnstaple, Devon (I)

Bateman’s, Sussex (I)

Bath Abbey, Somerset (I)

Bath, Somerset (I)

Battle Abbey, Sussex (I)

Bedford, Bedfordshire (I)

Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire (I), (II)

Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire (I), (II), (III)

Berkeley, Gloucestershire (I), (II), (III)

Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire (I), (II)

Berwick, Dorset (I), (II)

Big Ben, London (I)

Birkenhead, Cheshire (I), (II)

Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire (I)

Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire (I), (II)

Blidworth, Nottinghamshire (I)

Blisdale, Yorkshire (I)

Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire (I)

Bodmin Moor, Cornwall (I)

Bodmin, Cornwall (I)

Bosham, Sussex (I), (II)

Boston, Lincolnshire (I)

Boston, Massachusetts (I)

Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (I), (II)

Branston, Staffordshire (I)

Brantwood House, Lancashire (I), (II)

Brigg, Lincolnshire (I)

Brighton, Sussex (I), (II)

British Museum (I)

Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon, Hampshire (I)

Broadheath, Worcestershire (I)

Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire (I), (II), (III)

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (I)

Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire (I)

Buckingham Palace (I)

Buckland Abbey, Devon (I), (II), (III), (IV)

Bunhill Fields, Middlesex

Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk (I)

Burton Bradstock, Dorset (I)

Burton Constable, Staffordshire (I)

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (I)

Bury, Lancashire (I)

Caister Castle, Norfolk (I), (II)

Caister, Norfolk (I)

Calverton, Nottinghamshire (I)

Camborne, Cornwall (I), (II)

Cambridge (I), (II), (III), (IV)

Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire (I)

Canterbury, Kent (I), (II), (III)

Cape Town (I)

Cardington, Bedfordshire (I), (II)

Carlisle, Cumberland (I)

Carn Brea, Cornwall (I)

Cathedrals

Canterbury (I), (II), (III)

Carlisle (I)

Christ the King, Liverpool (I)

Coventry (I)

Durham (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V)

Gloucester (I)

Hereford (I)

Lincoln (I), (II)

Liverpool (I), (II)

Oxford (I)

St Paul’s (I), (II)

Wells (I), (II)

Winchester (I)

Worcester (I), (II)

York Minster (I)

Cavern Club, Liverpool, Lancashire (I)

Cenotaph (I)

Central Library, Manchester (I)

Chaldon, Surrey (I)

Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire (I), (II)

Chapel Stile, Cumberland (I)

Chard, Somerset (I)

Charlecote Park, Warwickshire (I), (II)

Charlton, Hertfordshire (I)

Chawton, Hampshire (I), (II)

Chesil Beach, Dorset (I), (II)

Chester, Cheshire (I), (II), (III)

Chesterfield, Derbyshire (I), (II)

Chiltern Hills (I)

Chippenham, Wiltshire (I)

Cholsey, Vale of the White Horse (I)

Chorley, Lancashire (I)

Churches

St John’s Smith Square, Westminster (I)

All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire (I)

All Saints, Earl’s Barton, Northamptonshire (I), (II)

All Saints, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (I)

All Saints, Little Somborne, Hampshire (I), (II)

All Saints, Maldon, Essex (I), (II)

All Saints, Market Weighton, Yorkshire (I)

All Saints, Southill, Bedfordshire (I)

All Saints, Wetheringsett (I)

Elstow Abbey, Bedfordshire (I), (II)

Great St Mary’s Cambridge (I)

Holy Sepulchre, Northampton (I), (II)

Holy Trinity, Bosham, Sussex (I), (II)

Holy Trinity, Kendal, Westmorland (I), (II)

Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (I), (II)

Kings College Chapel, Cambridge (I), (II)

Little Maplestead (I), (II)

Normanton, Rutland (I)

Sherborne Abbey, Dorset (I)

St Andrew’s Coniston, Lancashire (I)

St Andrew’s, Sempringham, Lincolnshire (I)

St Andrew’s, Temple Grafton, Warwickshire (I)

St Augsutine’s, Ramsgate, Kent (I)

St Enodoc’s, Polzeath, Cornwall (I), (II)

St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire (I), (II)

St George’s, Fordington, Dorset (I)

St Giles, Coberley, Gloucestershire (I)

St John the Baptist, Barnack, Northamptonshire (I)

St John the Baptist, Widford, Hertfordshire (I)

St John’s Glastonbury, Somerset (I)

St John’s, Hampstead, Middlesex (I), (II)

St Laurence, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (I)

St Laurence, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (I)

St Martin’s Canterbury, Kent (I), (II)

St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (I)

St Mary-le-Strand, London (I)

St Mary’s Chapel, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (I)

St Mary’s Ewelme, Oxfordshire (I), (II)

St Mary’s, Cardington, Bedfordshire (I)

St Mary’s, Cowley, Gloucestershire (I)

St Mary’s, Hemel Hempsted, Hertfordshire (I)

St Mary’s, Raunds, Northamptonshire (I)

St Nicholas, Abbot’s Bromley, Staffordshire (I)

St Nicholas, Newbury, Berkshire (I)

St Nicholas, Old Stevenage, Hertfordshire (I)

St Nicholas, Whitehaven, Cumberland (I)

St Oswald’s, Lower Peover, Cheshire (I)

St Paul’s, Jarrow, County Durham (I)

St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (I)

St Peter and St Paul, King’s Sutton, Northamptonshire (I), (II)

St Peter’s Lowick, Northamptonshire (I)

St Peter’s Petersham, Surrey (I)

St Peter’s, Bradwell, Essex (I)

St Peter’s, Burnham, Buckinghamshire (I)

St Peter’s, Northampton (I), (II), (III)

St Wulstan’s, Little Malvern, Worcestershire (I)

Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire (I), (II)

Coggeshall, Essex (I), (II)

Colchester, Essex (I)

Come-to-Good, Cornwall (I), (II)

Coniston Water, Lancashire (I), (II)

Cookham, Berkshire (I)

Cooper’s Hill, Gloucestershire (I)

Corfe Castle, Dorset (I)

Coventry, Warwickshire (I), (II)

Cowley Manor, Gloucestershire (I), (II)

Coxhoe, County Durham (I)

Cromer, Norfolk (I)

Crooked House, Staffordshire (I)

Crowndale Farm, Tavistock, Devon (I)

Croydon, Surrey (I)

Cuckney, Nottinghamshire (I)

Dagenham, Essex (I)

Daresbury, Cheshire (I)

Dartford, Kent (I), (II)

Davis Straits, Greenland (I)

Deerhurst, Gloucestershire (I)

Denby, Derbyshire (I)

Derby (I)

Dethick, Derbyshire (I)

Devonport, Devon (I)

Didbrook, Gloucestershire (I)

Dishley, Leicestershire (I), (II)

Doncaster, Yorkshire (I)

Dorchester, Dorset (I), (II)

Dorchester, Oxfordshire (I), (II)

Downe House, Kent (I)

Downend, Bristol, Gloucestershire (I)

Dragon Hill, Vale of the White Horse (I)

Dulverton, Somerset (I)

Durdle Door, Dorset (I)

Durham (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V)

Durham Castle (I)

Durham University (I)

Eaglesfield, Cumberland (I)

Ealing Studios, Middlesex (I)

East Drayton, Nottinghamshire (I)

East Stour, Dorset (I)

East Winch, Norfolk (I)

Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent (I)

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (I)

Eaton Hall, Cheshire (I)

Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire (I), (II), (III)

Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich Green, Essex (I)

Elsotn, Nottinghamshire (I)

Elstow, Bedfordshire (I), (II), (III)

Englefield Green, Surrey (I)

Epsom Downs, Surrey (I), (II), (III)

Epsom, Surrey (I)

Epworth, Lincolnshire (I), (II)

Eton College, Buckinghamshire (I)

Evershot, Dorset (I)

Ewelme, Oxfordshire (I), (II), (III), (IV)

Exmoor (I)

Eynsford, Kent (I), (II), (III)

Fairlight, Sussex (I)

Fakenham, Norfolk (I)

Falkland Islands (I)

Fallodon Hall, Northumberland (I)

Farndon, Cheshire (I)

Farnham, Surrey (I)

Faversham Abbey, Kent (I)

Faversham, Kent (I), (II)

Felixstowe, Suffolk (I)

Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V)

Finchingfield, Essex (I)

Firle, Sussex (I)

Fletching, Sussex (I)

Fockbury, Worcestershire (I)

Fordingbridge, Hampshire (I)

Forest of Arden, Warwickshire (I)

Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire (I)

Fortune Green, Middlesex (I)

Foster Street, Essex (I)

Fowey, Cornwall (I), (II)

Frenchman’s Creek, Cornwall (I)

Frome, Somerset (I)

Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk (I)

Gawcott, Buckinghamshire (I)

Gestingthorpe, Essex (I), (II)

Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset (I), (II)

Glastonbury Tor, Somerset (I)

Glastonbury, Somerset (I), (II)

Gloucester (I)

Godalming, Surrey (I)

Golden Cap, Dorset (I)

Goonhilly Earth Satellite Station, Cornwall (I)

Goring-on-Thames, Berkshire (I)

Grand Hotel, Scarborough, Yorkshire (I)

Great Hall, Winchester, Hampshire (I)

Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire (I)

Greenwich, Kent (I)

Grimsby, Lincolnshire (I)

Guildford, Surrey (I)

Guiseley, Yorkshire (I)

Gulbenkian Museum, Durham (I)

Haddon Hall, Derbyshire (I)

Hagley Station, Worcestershire (I)

Hambleden, Buckinghamshire (I)

Hampden House, Buckinghamshire (I), (II)

Hampstead Cemetery, Middlesex (I), (II)

Hampstead, Middlesex (I)

Hanley, Staffordshire (I), (II)

Harewood House, Yorkshire (I)

Harwich, Essex (I), (II)

Hayes Barton Farm, Devon (I)

Haystacks Mountain, Cumberland (I)

Helston, Cornwall (I), (II), (III),

Hemel Hempsted, Hertfordshire (I), (II)

Henley, Oxfordshire (I)

Hereford (I), (II)

Hesket Newmarket, Cumberland (I)

Heswall, Cheshire (I)

Higher Bockhampton, Dorset (I)

Hoby, Leicestershire (I)

Hogarth’s House, Chiswick, Middlesex (I)

Hogsmill (I), (II)

Holme Lacy, Herefordshire (I)

Holmes Chapel, Cheshire (I)

Holne, Devon (I)

Horsehay, Shropshire (I)

Horsham, Sussex (I)

Horton, Northamptonshire (I)

Hucknall, Nottinghamshire (I)

Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire (I)

Huntingdon (I)

Hurtswood, Lancashire (I)

Ickwell Green, Bedfordshire (I), (II)

Ilford, Essex (I)

Ilminster, Somerset (I)

Ipswich, Suffolk (I), (II)

Isle of Portland, Dorset (I), (II), (III)

Islington, Middlesex (I)

Jamaica Inn, Cornwall (I)

Jarrow, County Durham (I), (II), (III)

Jodrell Bank, Cheshire (I), (II)

Jordans, Buckinghamshire (I), (II)

Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire (I)

Kendal Castle, Westmorland (I)

Kendal, Westmorland (I), (II)

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire (I)

Kettering, Northamptonshire (I)

Kidderminster, Worcestershire (I), (II)

Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire (I)

King’s Lynn, Norfolk (I), (II)

King’s School, Canterbury, Kent (I)

Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (I), (II)

Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire (I)

Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland (I)

Knaresborough, Yorkshire (I)

Knowle, Warwickshire (I)

Knutsford, Cheshire (I), (II)

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire (I)

Laleham, Middlesex (I)

Lambeth Palace, London (I)

Lancaster (I)

Land’s End, Cornwall (I)

Lea Hurst, Holloway, Derbyshire (I), (II)

Leicester (I), (II)

Lelant, Cornwall (I)

Letchworth, Hertfordshire (I)

Levens Hall, Westmorland (I), (II)

Lincoln (I), (II), (III), (IV)

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (I), (II)

Lindisfarne, Northumberland (I), (II)

Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire (I), (II)

Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire (I)

Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire (I)

Liverpool, Lancashire (I), (II)

Lizard, The, Cornwall (I)

Longsleddale, Westmorland (I)

Lowestoft, Suffolk (I)

Loxley, Warwickshire (I)

Lulworth Cove, Dorset (I)

Luton, Bedfordshire (I)

Lydda, Palestine (I)

Lydington Bede, Rutland (I)

Maidenhead, Berkshire (I)

Maidstone, Kent (I), (II)

Major Oak, Sherwood Forest (I)

Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire (I), (II)

Malmesbury, Wiltshire (I), (II), (III), (IV)

Malvern Hills, Worcestershire (I), (II)

Market Drayton, Shropshire (I)

Market Weighton, Yorkshire (I), (II)

Martyrs Memorial, Oxford (I)

Matapos National Park, Zimbabwe (I)

Medmenham Abbey, Buckinghamshire (I)

Melbourne House, Derbyshire (I)

Melcombe Regis, Dorset (I)

Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire (I)

Menabilly, Cornwall (I)

Meriden, Warwickshire (I)

Milston, Wiltshire (I)

Milton Abbas, Dorset (I)

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (I)

Milton’s Cottage, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire (I), (II)

Minehead, Somerset (I)

Minorca (I)

Monkwearmouth, County Durham (I)

Morpeth, Northumberland (I), (II)

Mortlake, Surrey (I)

Mossley, Lancashire (I)

Mount, The. Shrewsbury (I)

Much Marcle, Herefordshire (I)

Much Wenlock, Shropshire (I), (II)

Nether Lypiatt Manor, Gloucestershire (I)

Netherton, Staffordshire (I)

New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (I)

Newbury, Berkshire (I), (II), (III)

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (I)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne (I)

Newfoundland (I)

Newport Arch, Lincoln, Lincolnshire (I)

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire (I)

Nicomedia, Turkey (I)

Normanton Hall, Rutland (I)

North Downs (I)

Northam, Devon (I)

Northampton (I), (II)

Northill, Bedfordshire (I)

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire (I)

Nottingham (I)

Nuneaton, Warwickshire (I)

Old Bell, Malmesbury, Wiltshire (I), (II)

Old Stevenage, Hertfordshire (I)

Oldham, Lancashire (I), (II)

Olney, Buckinghamshire (I), (II)

Oswestry, Shropshire (I)

Otham, Kent (I), (II)

Otley, Yorkshire (I)

Ottery St Mary, Devon (I)

Oundle, Northamptonshire (I)

Oxford (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII)

Oxnead, Norfolk (I), (II)

Packwood House, Warwickshire (I)

Papplewick, Nottinghamshire (I)

Paston, Norfolk (I)

Paul, Cornwall (I)

Pauntley, Gloucestershire (I)

Pennsylvania (I), (II)

Penzance, Cornwall (I), (II)

Pilgrim’s Hall, Winchester, Hampshire (I)

Playford, Suffolk (I)

Plymouth Hoe, Devon (I)

Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts (I)

Plymouth, Massachusetts (I)

Poldhu Cove, Cornwall (I)

Poole Harbour, Dorset (I)