Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Somerset Neighbours
Taunton just below. A near cluster Of red roofs marks Hawkescombe's market town. The rich country between it and the village has many streams fringed with loose-strife, willow-herb, meadow-sweet, and forget-me-not, and its meadows of bright emerald green are spangled in their seasons with cowslips, oxlips, and wild orchids. The copses seen here and there are carpeted in Spring and summer with Lent-lilies, primroses, violets, anemones, bluebells, and fox gloves. The ploughed fields are splendid with rich, warm, old red sandstone and marl.
On one high knap the badger earths are. It stands as a sentinel for the great wood of heavy forest timber, oak, ash, chestnut, and pine, which falls away below it to the river. To the west a purple fringe marks Exmoor, and in the bite of the hills the Bristol Channel gleams like a jewel. Between it and Hawkescombe a hanging larchwood is where the woodcock breeds. The high down to the north is where I last saw a honey buzzard, and in the field below I found, only last season, a quail nestling.
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