The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Ebert to Estremadura

part in the vale, or series of almost unrivalled vales, along which it

pursues its romantic course through the counties of Montgomery, Salop, Worcester, and Gloucester. South-east of the Cotswold Hills is Salisbury Plain, but it is only in name that it can be classed with the other plains and level lands of England, being a large elevated plateau, of an oval shape, with a thin chalk...