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In this same finely discriminating way, Aslet warns us against sloppy thinking when it comes to villages with literary associations.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Aslet is careful, though, not to make one village blur into another in a lovely fug of Queen Anne brickwork and exemplary duck ponds, where everyone is unaccountably nice.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Whereas McKie's interest centres on the people rather than the places he visits, Aslet draws upon his background as an architectural writer and keeps mainly to the sticks and stones that have constructed what his sub-title declares to be "the 500 villages that made the countryside".
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Aslet, meanwhile, is not afraid to break this spell of drowsy charm, and tackle a Welsh village whose name is synonymous with utter darkness.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Aslet, though, is careful not to invite us to become mere gawpers.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Aslet has picked his villages on account of the stories they tell about a time when Britain was organised very differently from today.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Clive Aslet: The Telegraph - It started with housing and will end there
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Clive Aslet: The Telegraph - It started with housing and will end there
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Clive Aslet: The Telegraph - It started with housing and will end there
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In his other hand, Flinx held the small device the man had withdrawn from his pocket and pointed in the direction of the alien Aslet.
Sideshow Foster, Alan Dean 2002
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