saxonholme

Updated: June 4, 2025

Here for long centuries, a tribe of rooks have held undisputed possession, filling the boughs with their nests and the air with their voices, and, like genuine lords of the soil, descending at their own grave will and pleasure upon the adjacent lands. Picturesque and mediæval as all these old buildings and old associations help to make us, we of Saxonholme pretend to something more.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - In the Days of My Youth