Loamshire

Loamshire,The county in which Hayslope, the main scene of Adam Bede, is situated. "That rich undulating district of Loamshire to which Hayslope belonged lies close to a grim outskirt of Stonyshire, overlooked by its barren hills as a pretty blooming sister may sometimes be seen linked in the arm of a rugged, tall, swarthy brother ; and in two or three hours' ride the traveller might exchange a bleak, treeless region, intersected by lines of cold grey stone, for one where his road wound under the shelter of woods, or up swelling hills, muffled with hedgerows and long meadowgrass and thick corn ; and where at every turn he came upon some fine old country seat nestled in the valley or crowning the slope, some homestead with its long length of barn and its cluster of golden ricks, some grey steeple looking out from a pretty con fusion of trees and thatch and dark-red tiles." The original of Loamshire in Adam Bede is Staffordshire, the county in which George Eliot's father, Robert Evans (" Adam Bede ") lived before moving to Warwickshire.

<em>Adam Bede</em>

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