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  • Beyond lie great barns, a flagged courtyard and flagged paths, and round the corner a second bridge over the moat, brickbuilt and massive; and by the garden gate a mounting-stone, which it would be pleasant to think gave Anne Boleyn's royal wooer an easy step into the saddle.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • She had flown straight back to London, neither knowing nor caring where her father was, and driven west out along the M40, to turn off the motorway and drive along winding roads and increasingly narrow lanes into the heart of the Chilterns, until she had reached the remote, brickbuilt Queen Anne manor house, Beaumont, nestled into a fold of the wooded hills, which was her mother’s haven.

    Purchased for Revenge James, Julia 2006

  • She had flown straight back to London, neither knowing nor caring where her father was, and driven west out along the M40, to turn off the motorway and drive along winding roads and increasingly narrow lanes into the heart of the Chilterns, until she had reached the remote, brickbuilt Queen Anne manor house, Beaumont, nestled into a fold of the wooded hills, which was her mother’s haven.

    Purchased For Revenge James, Julia 2006

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