ABSTRACT
Any valued locale is ipso facto memorable; we revisit it, recalling or copying its real or imagined lineaments so as to preserve and heighten previous experience. Scenes from our own past and from historically remote times become ‘a living link between what we were and what we have become,’ in Margaret Drabble’s words. 1 The tides of taste for moors and mountains, meadows and pastures, castles and cathedrals and everyday locales continually shift. 2 But whatever they are and however they are experienced, favoured scenes linger on in memory. Here I examine the significance of such recollections and imagination.
