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  • I went down to Mudford in the Yeo valley to meet a friend who really knows his natural surroundings, especially insects and plants.

    Country diary: Yeo Valley, Somerset 2011

  • Summerhouse Hill, about half a mile away; another, magnificent in its extent, can be had from the Mudford road that runs in a north-easterly direction.

    Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

  • They dealt irreverently with Mudford society, draped in a thin veil of some alias material, and they signed themselves "Blight."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various

  • As if it weren't enough to find the beastly things all over the Club, without being pestered with them at home, making fun of the best people in Mudford.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various

  • No wonder that all the prizes of the profession were announced to be within his grasp, and that when he buried himself in the little country town of Mudford he was thought to have thrown away recklessly opportunities such as were granted to few.

    Once a Week 1919

  • His slippered feet stretched out luxuriously to the fire, Dr. Venables, of Mudford, lay back in his arm-chair and gave himself up to the delights of his Flor di Cabajo, No. 2, a box of which had been presented to him by an apparently grateful patient.

    Once a Week 1919

  • Lancet_ on "The Recurrence of Anthro-philomelitis in Earth-worms" kept him in touch with modern medical thought, but he could not help feeling that to some extent his powers were rusting in Mudford.

    Once a Week 1919

  • It made even Tara feel rather sick; and when a young gardener appeared on the scene she called out: "Oh, Mudford, do stop them -- or something'll happen."

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • But Mudford -- British to the bone -- would do nothing of the kind.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • Mudford and his barrow departed; and Tara looked appealingly at her mother.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

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