Selborne from the Hanger

White's Monument

Edmund Hort New

1900

White, following p.389

Gilbert White often mentioned Selborne Church, where his grandfather had been the Vicar. He himself was born in the vicarage, and lived close by, taking pleasure in observing the habits of birds like owls, swifts and house-martins that found nesting-places in its crannies.

  • Richard Jefferies and other British Nature Writers — Gilbert White, William Cobbett, and W.H. Hudson
  • Victorian Ornithologists

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