Turn left at the pub

"The author's own pleasure and liking for the localities he is describing is obvious. Book in hand, every visitor will know enough to look for the massive yew, the oak cross beam, the manor house, the church spire. His ability to anticipate questions is uncanny. He tells in advance how long the excursion will take, what to see, what day and hour to go, where you can stop for refreshment, how to get to the starting point by train, car or bus, what to do when the gate says stop and, most of all, how to get back to the starting point when you reach the end of the trip. Just reading the book makes the spirit restless. It's light in the hand, but a light also on some of the loveliest places in England." Thomas Lask, the New York Times