Gaily into Ruislip Gardens runs the red electric train…
Near the end of the Metropolitan Line, where London dwindles into woods and meadows, stands a Tudor manor house, built within the moat of a motte-and-bailey castle. Now a quaint museum, charting the history of the farms that once surrounded it, this modest landmark shares its name with the local Tube station, Ruislip Manor.
William Cook
The false paradise of Metroland
<em>William Cook</em> has moved to Metroland. He contemplates John Betjeman’s vision of it

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