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Aldworth Property For Sale & Rent
Aldworth
Berkshire: From Streatley the road rises steeply to Aldworth, a lonely village
on chalk downs.
There is a covered well descending 372 ft, one of the
deepest in England; an enormous yew in the
churchyard is extremely old, perhaps 1,000 years, and in the church lie nine huge effigies of the de la Beche family
no one knows their individual names,
owing to the Earl of Leicester's
carelessness in not replacing the
table of names he showed to Queen
Elizabeth I when she visited the church. No one knows either quite when they
were carved, but it was probably in the 14th century.
There they lie,
nine great figures, though some were sadly mutilated in Puritan times. Under
their
intricately decorated canopies, one knight and his lady lie turned on their sides, and another knight is
semi-recumbent, leaning on one elbow, a position rarely seen on tombs.
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