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It gets a mention in "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K
Jerome.
"We got out at
Sonning, and went for a walk round the village. It is the
most fairy-like little nook on the whole river. It is more like a
stage
village than one built of bricks and mortar. Every house is smothered
in
roses, and now, in early June, they were bursting forth in clouds of
dainty splendour. If you stop at
Sonning, put up at the "Bull," behind
the church. It is a veritable picture of an old country inn, with
green,
square courtyard in front, where, on seats beneath the trees, the old men
group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;
with low, quaint rooms and latticed windows, and awkward stairs and
winding passages.
We roamed about sweet Sonning
for an hour or so, and then, it being too
late to push on past Reading ................. |
