TILE LOVELIEST VILLAGE.
Which is the most lovely village in England is a question open to debate ; but few, I think, would deny that architec- turally no village, and indeed no town street, is quite com- parable with Campden. It has a unity of colour and senti- ment as rare as it is beautiful. This architectural unity, due in large measure to the use of native stone for wall and roof, and this unchallengeable superiority in the village seems much more apparent to strangers than to the residents. By a majority of two it was recently decided to substitute brick for stone in a number of cottages about to be built, though plenty of people were willing to help to pay the slight difference between the cost of brick and stone. Even if local authorities have not travelled widely enough to know the superiority of their village, their mere parochialism should save them from such Philistine blindness to their own beauties. Resentment was aroused all over the Cortswolds, and the decision was mercifully rescinded. The houses are to be built in stone.
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