BRITISH VILLAGES
SOME QUAINT RECORDS. Great Britain contains a number of villages which are in their way record villages. Kempton, for instance, is the longest village in the world. There is in it only on© road, but it is seven miles long! The Isle of Ely contains a small parish of about a inhabitants, wh 0 do not pay rates; tlier© are no roads or public institutions of any kind, and consequently no expenses. Buekland-in-the-Moor (Devon) ha s no publichouse, policeman, doctor, clergyman, or pauper. Perhaps the quaintest village of all is one which consists entirely of old' railway carriages. Even the cbaj>el is made of four hors© trucks.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15163, 2 October 1942, Page 4
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109BRITISH VILLAGES Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15163, 2 October 1942, Page 4
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