Hucclecote, View From Birdlip Hill c.1960
Photo ref:
H337012
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While staying in Gloucestershire in 1863, Lewis Carroll described the view across the Severn Vale as 'marked out just like a giant chessboard'. This, it is said, gave him the idea for the chessboard scenes and characters in his classic children's fantasy Alice through the Looking-Glass. As we look at this view from Birdlip across the Vale to the Malverns, the Severn Estuary and the Brecon beacons beyond, it is easy to understand how the county's landscape influenced the writer.
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