by Hugh Thomson
Story of My Heart, The (Richard Jefferies) 109
structuralism 249–50
Stukeley, William 68, 69
Swannery 17
swans 17
Sweet Thames Run Softly (Robert Gibbings) 151
Swindon 108, 110
Swinton, Tilda 252
Sword in the Stone, The (T H White) 44
Swyncombe 156
Taylor, Benedict 259–60
Taylor, Maisie 266, 268, 281
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) 26
Tewkesbury Abbey 175
Therfield Heath 241
Thomas, Dylan 144–5
Thomas, Edward 6, 49–50, 125–7, 191, 193
walking by 210, 211
Thompson, Elspeth 258
Thompson, Emma 252
Thorne, John 82
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome) 153
Time Team TV series 279
Times:
Stonehenge article in 293–4
Stonehenge letter in 295
Timperley, H W 54
‘Tipi Valley’ 97
Towton, battle of 175–6
Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck) 196
Tull, Jethro 60
tumuli 24, 26, 57, 79
Uffington 82, 101, 113–16, 117, 119, 199, 204
Under The Sun, BBC series 251
Uses of Literacy, The (Richard Hoggart) 234
Vale of Pewsey 81
Varsity 252
Vespasian, emperor 29
Vikings 9, 33, 49, 50, 122, 238–9
brutality of 237
conflicting portrayals of 237
Edmund the Martyr killed by 237
Ipswich sacked by 155
at Kingstanding Hill 121–4
raids of, as God’s punishment 238
as traders 237
walking:
loved by Kenneth Grahame 139, 212
lyrical intensity of 38
and poets 210–11
Wallington 231–4
Wandlebury 243–7, 257
Wars of the Roses 45, 55, 58, 174, 175–6, 241
Waters, David 75
Watford 11
Watlington 190–5
Wayland’s Smithy 112–13
Wellplace Farm 169
Wessex 8, 49
Alfred’s crucial defence of 122–4
Saxons create 101
West Saxons 7–8, 9, 150
Weymouth Sands (Powys) 30
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer 29–30, 31
white-horse hill carvings, see chalk hill carvings
White Rock, Chuquipalta, Peru 23–4
White Sheet Hill 52, 53–4
White, T H 44
Whiteleaf Cross 198–200
Wild Swim (Kate Rew) 129–30
Wilde, Oscar 125
Wildwood (Roger Deakin) 146
Wilkinson, George 191
Williams, Rowan 227
Wiltshire Avon 59
Wiltshire Downs 117
hill-forts along 101
Wind in the Willows, The (Kenneth Grahame) 110, 128, 139–44, 165, 212
‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ 139
Wise, Revd Francis 115
Wittenham Clumps 147–8, 149–50
Wodehouse, P G 217
wood pigeons 217–19
Woodhenge 67, 70–1, 71–2
woodland 201–5
linden trees 204–5
Wordsworth, William 210–11
Wormald, Patrick 160
Yeats, W B 55
Young, David 19–22
‘zero tillage’ 222–3
see also ploughing; soil, science of
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