Clive Aslet, editor of "Country Life", lived in London until January 2000. Then, he bought a small cottage in the country near where his horse was stabled at Naseby. This is what happened. Naseby is the site of the great battle that, some say, ended the English Civil War. It's also typical of a certain type of particularly English countryside: rolling green fields, farmland good and bad, copses of ancient woodland and an ugly dual carriageway. It is also the site of a modern civil war, between country folk steeped in the ...
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Clive Aslet, editor of "Country Life", lived in London until January 2000. Then, he bought a small cottage in the country near where his horse was stabled at Naseby. This is what happened. Naseby is the site of the great battle that, some say, ended the English Civil War. It's also typical of a certain type of particularly English countryside: rolling green fields, farmland good and bad, copses of ancient woodland and an ugly dual carriageway. It is also the site of a modern civil war, between country folk steeped in the ways of country living, and newly de-mobbed urbanites in search of - what exactly? Clive Aslet went determined to find out and recorded the results of his year in the country: a blend of local anecdote, historic discovery, character and incident, set against England's unfolding drama of the countryside: what it is, who is to enjoy it, what it can and should tolerate. One man and his horse in an acutely observed comedy of rural manners: these are Clive Aslet's rural rides among England's truculent, turbulent countryfolk.
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