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Evesham

CHAPTER VI
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The main road runs straight on, and leads, through the village of Norton, to Alcester, Stratford, Birmingham, &c.

The way to the left is the old Worcester road, and skirts the grounds of the Abbey Manor.

If we take this lane and descend the hill we may turn sharply to the left near the bottom and return to the town by the "New Road"; or walk on a short distance with Wood Norton--the Duke of Orleans' house--on its wooded slope, in full view, and follow a lane on the left leading to Chadbury Mill.
The Abbey Manor, with its pretty grounds, is not open to the public.
In addition to the beautiful views obtained from its walks and lawns it contains many treasures of local interest.

Chief among these are fragments of columns, window tracery, sculpture, and other relics brought by an ancestor of the present owner, a noted antiquary, from the site of the Monastery.

Here are carefully preserved a splendid abbatial chair richly carved and of great size, bearing the monastic arms, and in remarkable preservation; also two quaint effigies of men in plate armour fashioned in solid oak about three-quarters of the size of life.


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