Loamshire

Thus Staffordshire is described as Loamshire, Derbyshire as

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Mr. and Mrs. Poyser were now at the end of the second field, so they set Totty on the top of one of the large stones forming the true Loamshire stile, and awaited the loiterers Totty observing with complacency, “Dey naughty, naughty boys — me dood.”

Adam Bede 2004

Loamshire — purse open to all public objects — in short, everything as different as possible from what was now associated with the name of Donnithorne.

Adam Bede 2004

I have often thought so when, in foreign countries, where the fields and woods have looked to me like our English Loamshire — the rich land tilled with just as much care, the woods rolling down the gentle slopes to the green meadows — I have come on sormething by the roadside which has reminded me that I am not in Loamshire: an image of a great agony — the agony of the Cross.

Adam Bede 2004

On these points he would have maintained his opinion against the largest landed proprietor in Loamshire or

Adam Bede 2004

Was there any man in Loamshire who knew better the “natur” of all farming work?

Adam Bede 2004

They had reached one of those very narrow passes between two tall stones, which performed the office of a stile in Loamshire, and

Adam Bede 2004

Loamshire men would as soon have thought of asking for a particular town or village in Africa as in “the south.”

Adam Bede 2004

He would show the Loamshire people what a fine country gentleman was; he would not exchange that career for any other under the sun.

Adam Bede 2004

The reaping of the wheat had begun in our north midland county of Loamshire, but the harvest was likely still to be retarded by the heavy rains, which were causing inundations and much damage throughout the country.

Adam Bede 2004