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The birthplace of angling
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The birthplace of angling - complete with a 400-year-old ‘temple’ honouring the inventor of fly-fishing - has been put on the market for £450,000.
The stone temple was built in the 17th century in honour of author Izaak Walton, and as a place to rest and take shelter on the banks of the River Dove, in Staffordshire.
Walton, the author of the angling 'bible', the ‘The Compleat Angler’ (sic), would spend hours on the banks with landowner Charles Cotton - who built the retreat in 1674 in honour of his friend. Their initials are carved in stone about the doorway of the Grade II listed stone-built structure.
Whoever buys the idyllic fishing retreat will not only own the three mile stretch of the riverbank, the fishing rights, and the Grade II listed fishing lodge, but also 33 acres of unspoilt woodland and grassland.
The stone temple was built in the 17th century in honour of author Izaak Walton, and as a place to rest and take shelter on the banks of the River Dove, in Staffordshire.
Walton, the author of the angling 'bible', the ‘The Compleat Angler’ (sic), would spend hours on the banks with landowner Charles Cotton - who built the retreat in 1674 in honour of his friend. Their initials are carved in stone about the doorway of the Grade II listed stone-built structure.
Whoever buys the idyllic fishing retreat will not only own the three mile stretch of the riverbank, the fishing rights, and the Grade II listed fishing lodge, but also 33 acres of unspoilt woodland and grassland.
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Mike
The Pound is about a buck.69 today.
The ancient Greeks wrote about fly fishing, and the first book about it in English was the 1486 edition of The Boke of St. Albans, attributed to one Dame Julia Berners (or Bernes), which included a Treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle. The Compleat Angler is a later work, but that stretch of the Dove indeed is hallowed ground.
Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
Mike
I'll let you know as soon as I'm done completing the purchase.
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