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- ID
- c13
- Title
- "London's Doorstep (Off the Highway in Kent)."
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 1
- Word Count
- 1200
- Publisher
- New Clarion
- Publication Year
- 1933
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Nature Writing
- Topics
- Travel
Bates describes a Sunday excursion available to "city dwellers and office prisoners" from Charing Cross to the Kentish countryside where he lives.
He finds "a bit of Scotland, a taste of North country, a glimpse of a German forest, a view as in Somerset — all in a day, and all in country lying on the very doorstep of London."
In New Clarion (June 10, 1933, p. 4, attached).
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