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.
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