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him from Pontrilas station, twelve miles south 

 of Hereford; follows the valley for about two 

 miles to Kentchurch Court, where the adjoin- 

 ing churchdisputes with Monnington-on- Wye 

 the claim to be the burial-placeof Owen Glen- 

 dower (Glyndwr, Mr. Bradley tells us it should 

 be) — a claim which it is to be feared history can 

 allow to neither place; and climbs the steep 

 slope of Kentchurch deer-park, to emerge upon 

 the breezy height of Garway Hill,kn elevation 

 of twelve hundred feet. Here, on clear days, 

 the eye can wander from the Bristol Channel 

 far up into Central Wales. Then, follow- 

 ing the hill south, breast-high in bracken, and 

 with soundless steps upon the sheep-cropped 

 turf, we shall come presently to sunny Garway 

 Rocks, and, by a winding road, with here and 

 there a solitary farm at which to ask the way, 

 arrive at last in sight of Garway church, which 

 stands upon a slope above the brawling Mon- 

 now, here the county boundary. 



The church itself might easily detain us 

 long. Its tower, standing at an angle to the 

 building, and connected with it only by a short 

 passage ; its curiously carved chancel arch; the 

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