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South-West England: A British Journey

There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand
For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crises when I stand,
Say, on Ingpen Beacon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly,
I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be.

'Wessex Heights' by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Technical Details

Number of stamps: six
Date of issue: 8 February 2005
Design: Phelan Barker Design Consultants
Acknowledgements: Old Harry Rocks © Collections/Fay Godwin; Wheal Coates and St James's Stone © National Trust Picture Library/Joe Cornish; Start Point © Rob Talbot (Talbot-Whiteman); Horton Down © Andreas Heumann; Chiselcombe © Brian Pearce
Printer: De La Rue Security Print, Byfleet, Surrey KT14 7PU
Process: gravure
Stamp designs © Royal Mail Group plc 2005
Format: square
Size: 35mm × 35mm
Perforations: 14.5 × 14.5
Number per sheet: 25/50
Phosphor bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA

Cover design and photographic illustration: Russell Warren-Fisher
Cover design © Royal Mail Group plc 2005
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