The presence of such a population, imbued with such a
psy- chology, compels in many places a new conception of the social and artistic structure of the county. Not only have factories come south, but they have planted themselves in very rural surroundings. In the delightful survey of Oxford (as much a peep into the future as a review of the present) those eminent surveying triumvirs, Lord Mayo, Professors Adshead and Patrick Abercrombie, have published a remark- able map showing the place of residence of 6,000 or so work- men employed in Morris's motor works. They flock to the lonely factory (set in a lovely scene below Shotover) from Reading, Bletchley, Swindon, Aylesbury and other towns regarded by Oxford residents of last century as utterly remote and by many never visited. They must be brought nearer. How ? Certainly not by the method adopted in the north at the industrial revolution, when the disfigurement of the country expressed in a diabolic grimace the defacement of beauty from the life of the workers.
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