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From Charles Dickens to Frederick Forsyth and Ian Fleming; Edith Nesbit and Jane Austen to HG Wells – a new book highlights Kent's literary heritage

From Charles Dickens to Frederick Forsyth and Ian Fleming; Edith Nesbit and Jane Austen to HG Wells – a new book highlights Kent's literary heritage
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Genius at the Turn of the Century

Genius at the Turn of the Century
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The classic travel guidebooks that inspire my trips


Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton
Cottages in Lacock village, Wiltshire. Photograph: Dave Henrys/Alamy
Years ago I came across a faded little volume in a secondhand bookshop near Salisbury: Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton, published during the first world war. Inside its pages a world opened before me: little lanes, silent villages, rivers that meandered through unspoilt landscapes of willow and elm.
The books weren’t practical, but their idiosyncrasies were liberating
Hutton was also gloriously opinionated. An upper middle-class Edwardian gentleman, his writing was often snobbish. He praised Salisbury fulsomely, but disliked its ruined predecessor, Old Sarum, dismissing it as “all these dead stones”. He thought Stonehenge “sterile” and called Wilton’s breathtaking Italianate church “a horrible building”. Entire valleys displeased him. ....

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