1. ‘Of all significant things the most striking, poignant, passioning, is the sight of a great valley at the end of the day – such as the Severn Valley which lies hushed and dark, infinitely full of meaning, while yet the far Welsh hills are touched with living and ecstatic gold’ (Gurney, ‘The Springs of Music’, July 1922).

1. Crickley Hill is a site of great natural, geological and archaeological interest on the Cotswold scarp approximately six miles east of Gloucester.