Excerpt from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, Vol. 4IS county holds a high place in the affections of those who seek for beauty unspoiled and undefiled in a modernised and commercial world, for the tide of industrial progress has largely swept by it and it still enjoys a certain remoteness which has preserved it from the invasions of the tourist as well as the trading armies. True it is that Birmingham has made waterworks of one of its most charming river valleys (not entirely to its detriment), but in general its woods, hills, and rivers are more or less in their native state and offer scenery which, without being grand or imposing, is full of varied attractions and singularly free from the contamination of industrialism. New Radnor lies at the southern base of the heights known collectively as Radnor Forest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.