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RIDE THROUGH THE NORTH-EAST PART OF SUSSEX, AND ALL ACROSS KENT, FROM THE WEALD OF SUSSEX, TO DOVER. Urban/Rural Rides will bill the member monthly; there will be no cash transactions between drivers and members. Hot-tempered on a hot day, Cobbett rode out from Salisbury along the Wylye valley. Visiting the all but empty cathedral, he was reminded of the ingratitude of the luxuriating Anglican clergy who continued to rail against the very Catholic faith that had built this peerless church in the first place. I find the sky-piercing cathedral crowded, although with its shops and cafes, it reminds me of a shopping mall. The ersatz congregation chews gum as if it was a herd of cows masticating cud. It is dressed all but uniformly in shorts, sweatshirts and baseball caps. I should be happier if railway locomotives were built inside Salisbury's nave, if shopaholic New Britain was capable of managing anything so skilled and useful. First stop is the pretty Fox and Hounds pub at Highclere, where I swap the Jag for a 24-speed bicycle, and then on to Burghclere to see the Sandham Memorial Chapel, with its anti-war paintings by Stanley Spencer. I come upon Greenham Common, the scene of more recent anti-military protests. It is being turned into a business park. Perhaps the local church might be renamed St Andrew Undershaft in honour of George Bernard Shaw's cynical "guns are good for us" armaments tycoon in Major Barbara.

Travelling alongside Scarlet I have an unobtrusive and gently paced appreciation of all I encounter. Creating an opportunity to investigating how housing, rural-based industry and the climate emergency are shaping change in our rural landscape. Certainly, the countryside hereabouts is still being sold off to create banal executive cul-de-sac estates, and business-park and PFI architecture. And yet there are lyrical moments to be had as you delve deeper into rural Hampshire, never more than a few miles from today's turnpikes. To be fair, such moments are even to be had on motorways. There is the moment, for example, where the M40 sweeps down from the Chilterns through a deep chalk cutting and out into Oxfordshire-in-excelsis. Here, you can see what seems to be an eagle-eye's distance. If only the Jag had flaps and wings, it might rise among all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. He first published his observations in serial form in the Political Register, between 1822 and 1826. Four rides – from 1822, 1823, 1825 and 1826 – were first published in book form in two volumes in 1830. In 1853, his son James published an expanded edition, including rides from 1821, as well as his father's 1830-32 political tours to the Midlands, North and Scotland. Forms are be completed by the applicant, any other person designated by him/her, or by his/her legal representative if the applicant cannot act.At this point, a livid youth driving a bright red car with what looks like the entire contents of a Halford's motor accessory shop superglued to it blasts his horn at me for parking not exactly in his way. He gives me two fingers, mouths the national cry of Saxon England and roars off, angry eyes half hidden under the long peak of a newly traditional English red baseball cap. He didn't even toot. By chance, I tail him into the designer retail outskirts of - where else? - Swindon. He turns off for the Caravan Centre.

Urban/Rural Rides will provide volunteer drivers with First Aid Kits, driver ID cards, and for the more active drivers, advertising magnets for their vehicles. Cobbett was a born campaigner. What he championed was England, and in particular an England of oaken wealds and downs south of the Thames. This was disappearing as fast as he rode, hunted hares and wrote. His dream England was to fuel the imagination of William Morris (1834-96) and thus, a touch ironically, suburbia itself via the garden city movement. For Cobbett, embryonic Regency suburbia was the decadent home of tax-eaters.Michael has been using Urban/Rural Rides for several years now. He has been dealing with a multitude of medical needs and relies on Urban/Rural Rides for his transportation into the city for his appointments. The views across Salisbury Plain, stirring then, are stirring now as well. I zigzag alongside Cobbett along what is now the A36 to reach bypassed villages with "singularly bright and beautiful views" and drop down into Warminster. The town bustles in the way that lively market towns do. It seems to be full of Indian and Chinese take-aways and army families out shopping. I eat freshly baked sausage rolls here. Cobbett liked Warminster because "everything belonging to it is solid and good". Even the sausage rolls. The market trades fairly, he says, and there are no middlemen. Rural Ride through the North-East part of Sussex, and all across Kent, from the Weald of Sussex, to Dover unction. If this be the effect of their light, give me the darkness“o’ th a Sooth.” This is according to what I have heard. If, when I go

Rural Ride from Kensington to St. Albans, through Edgware, Stanmore, and Watford, returning by Redbourn, Hempstead, and Chesham The new executive estates are as hard to escape in southern England as articles on television soap operas are in newspapers. Outside Godalming, I visit the home of an architect and his wife. The house, a converted barn, used to be a working part of a farm owned by nuns who live close by. Over coffee and cakes, I learn that some years ago, the nuns sold much of the farmland to developers to build executive housing. In the 1960s, the nuns had enjoyed tabloid fame. Sister Maria Mater, "the Nun with a Gun", liked to hunt, while her novices, all 57 of them - quite a variety - splashed around in a swimming pool.no road there, and it is impossible for you to get through those woods.”“Thank you,” said I; “but through those woods we mean to go.” Just at The views above the hedges beyond the western flank of The Grange are of high cornfields ripening into the far distance, the sort of land Cobbett adored. Golf courses, one of the curses of modern Surrey, are few and far between. I cross the M3 between East and West Stratton and the southern main line from Bas ingstoke to Winchester at Micheldever. The road from here to Whitchurch is closed because of flooding. It would have taken me up by Freefolk Wood, a name to Cobbett's taste. I race down a section of the A303 dual carriageway instead. The general going seems to be 100mph despite a funereal procession of holiday caravans. Rural Ride from Lyndhurst to Beaulieu Abbey; thence to Southampton, and Weston; thence to Botley, Allington, West End, near Hambledon; and thence to Petersfield, Thursley, and Godalming At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti- Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to England from a spell of self-imposed political exile in the United States. Pg i] CONTENTS. Rural Ride from London, through Newbury, to Burghclere, Hurstbourn Tarrant, Marlborough, and Cirencester, to Gloucester

When it's done well, Cobbettry can celebrate the differences between us. It can give us an insight into people and places we might be interested to know more about; it can illuminate the human condition by shining a light on particular examples. If the oath has been breached, the volunteer driver will be terminated. In the event of a lawsuit, Urban/Rural Drivers will be instructed NOT to take ride reservations other than those arranged through the to ride coordinator. Pg ii]Rural Ride from Kensington to Uphusband; including a Rustic Harangue at Winchester, at a Dinner with the FarmersI feel pretty beggared myself as I roll hungry as a horse into The Wen. The indefatigable Cobbett has quite tired me out. But I have come to like him, which I don't think I did before. Yes, he has his irrational prejudices - which of us doesn't? Yes, he is egotistical - but in a way that is, as William Hazlitt said of him, entirely without affectation. I like to think that this conservative-hearted rebel would have fought the errors of our age - PFI, out-of-town superstores, privatised national railways, leisurewear, executive housing, boring architecture, the loss of songbirds, suspended ceilings, deregulated buses, the suburbanisation of rural villages - with me. But he might have been too busy hunting hares. And there, until next week, we split company. J. M. Dent & Sons; Everyman's Library (1912), reprinted 1924 and 1953, ASIN B00085HPA0. Introduction by Edward Thomas. Constable; abridged hardcover edition (Sep 1982) ISBN 0-09-464060-2. Introduction by E. R. Chamberlain. immensely rich bishopric and chapter; and there were, at this “service,” two or three men and five or six boys in white surplices, with a

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