The ford across the Darent river at Eynsford, Kent in winter flood. This is the painter, Samuel Palmer’s ‘Valley of Vision’ with its own historic Roman villa and two castles.
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John Constable Country
The Stour valley is ‘Constable Country’. His wonderful pictures of this place, especially this ‘Hay Wain‘ painting, have become ‘part of the landscape of every English mind’.
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Autumn will soon be dressing the skirt of trees around Arundel Castle as it towers over the quaint streets of the town clustered below. For 900 years this symbol of power and permanence has silently watched the river Arun’s steady flow past.
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