"Kent."

On Bates's adopted home, which has "the happiest union of climate and soil and husbandry and sea," and a tour of its different regions.

Bates celebrates the sea, woods, hop-fields, and orchards while decrying "pre-fabs," chain stores, and a "coastal strip of bungalows of astonishing hideousness." He closes by describing Kentish air as "very sweet and pleasant" — I like it, and I shall probably go on breathing it and liking it, I think, for the rest of my days."

In Country Fair (London, i, 6, County Supplement No.6, December 1951, pp. 81-88, attached).