CHAPTER V. 



COLONISING CROWN LANDS. 



The most remarkable visual effect produced 

 by the recolonisation of England is obtained 

 on the fenlands bordering the Wash. Though 

 at Evesham gardeners have covered a larger 

 area of ground, the effect produced is not the 

 same, because nearly all the gardeners live in 

 one township, and the aggregation of their 

 fruit gardens might appear to the visitor who 

 views them from the Abbey tower as one vast 

 orchard undivided by fences. 



Taking the high road from Lynn to Sutton 

 Bridge you see, as you approach Walpole and 

 Wingland, a number of white houses roofed 

 with slates flashing in the sunlight, erected on 

 a stretch of flat country which a century ago 

 was unreclaimed marshland. Most of the 

 houses are built on the seaward side of King 



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