Shepperton

Shepperton,Parish where the Bartons live, and where Mr. Gilfil was vicar, many years earlier. "A flat ugly district this; depressing enough to look at even on the brightest days. The roads are black with coal dust, the brick houses dingy with smoke; and at that time-the time of handloom weavers-every other cottage had a loom at its window, where you might see a pale, sickly-looking man or woman preesing a narrow chest against a board, and doing a sort of tread-mill work with legs and arms. A troublesome district for a clergyman; at least to one . . . like Amos Barton." The original of Shepperton is Chilvers Coton, a suburb of Nuneaton.

Multiple (The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, Janet's Repentance, Adam Bede)

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