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Old Times at Otterbourne, by Charlotte M.
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Title: Old Times at Otterbourne
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Release Date: February 19, 2008 [eBook #24651]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1891 Warren and Son edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
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Old Times at Otterbourne.
BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.
[SECOND EDITION.]
Winchester: WARREN AND SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, HIGH STREET.
London: SIMPKIN AND CO., LIMITED, STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1891
Old Times at Otterbourne.
Not many of us remember Otterbourne before the Railroad, the Church, or the Penny Post. It may be pleasant to some of us to try to catch a few recollections before all those who can tell us anything about those times are quite gone.
To begin with the first that is known about it, or rather that is guessed. A part of a Roman road has been traced in Otterbourne Park, and near it was found a piece of a quern, one of the old stones of a hand mill, such as was used in ancient times for grinding corn; so that the place must have been inhabited at least seventeen hundred years ago.