[Illustration: Map of central England and Wales showing the routes of the Great Western Railway and highlighting some of the locations in this book: Bisham Abbey (page 40), Littlecote Manor (page 48), Windsor Forest (page 36), Guy’s Cliff (page 24), Stanton Drew (page 44), Wookey Hole (page 20), Reading (page 52).] [Illustration: Miniature of the front cover Illustration of Volume Three: fairies tending a garden] TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obsolete, archaic and unusual spellings have been maintained as in the original book. Obvious typos have been fixed silently. The cover page was produced at Distributed Proofreaders from material found in this book. The cover is hereby placed in the public domain. The author, “Lyonesse” is a pen-name for George Basil Barham.