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Updated: June 18, 2025
Now, had I found a duckling on the table at dinner I should have eaten it without thinking at all, or with the thought that it had come from Barbury Green. But eat a duckling that I have stoned out of the pond, pursued up the bank, chased behind the wire netting, caught, screaming, in a corner, and carried struggling to his bed?
Hackpen is almost the final effort of the chalk in this direction. At its northern end it rises to 884 feet, an isolated section being crowned by Barbury Camp, ringed by its beech trees, from which there is a grand view north and west. From this point the general trend of the chalk escarpment is north-east to the Lambourn Downs, between Lambourn and Wantage.
Pushing along the upper valley of Avon to a new battle at Barbury Hill they swooped at last from their uplands on the rich prey that lay along the Severn.
The Green is in the very centre of Barbury village, and all civic, political, family, and social life converges there, just at the public duck-pond a wee, sleepy lake with a slope of grass-covered stones by which the ducks descend for their swim. The houses are set about the Green like those in a toy village.
She looked at him for a moment, and turned contemptuously to the mirror, saying, "Thank you. Sorry to be inquisitive." "I am going to sing for the Countess of Carbury at a concert at Wandsworth." "Sing! You! The Countess of Barbury! Does she live at Wandsworth?" "No. She lives in Park Lane." "Oh! I beg her pardon."
She thought I should be quite as comfortable, and it was her opinion that in making arrangements with lodgers, it was a good plan not to "bryke up the 'ome any more than was necessary." "Bryke up the 'ome!" That is seemingly the malignant purpose with which I entered Barbury Green. July 4th. Enter the family of Thornycroft Farm, of which I am already a member in good and regular standing.
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