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Pretty Shillingford Bridge crosses the Thames at the next ford upriver toward Oxford from Wallingford.[/caption]

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‘A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.’
Walter Bagehot

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‘In English villages, you turn over a stone, you never know what will crawl out.’
Agatha Christie

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‘The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private right.’
William Blackstone

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‘There twice a day the Severn fills The salt-sea water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.’
Alfred, Lord Tennyson