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Road to riches: に引き続いて in the footsteps of 刑事 Whittington (oh yes he did 存在する!)

By Frank Barrett, Mail on Sunday Travel Editor
Updated: 11:43 BST, 19 December 2011

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Dick Whittington, played by West End actress Summer Strallen in a panto

Fame and fortune: 刑事 Whittington, played by West End actress Summer Strallen in a panto

Finding out that 刑事 Whittington is a real person is わずかに disconcerting.

It’s rather like wandering into your 地元の sorting office to discover Postman Pat and Mrs Goggins bagging up the morning’s mail.

And yet Sir Richard Whittington not only 存在するd, his real life was just as fantastic as the pantomime persona we （機の）カム to know as children (all together: Oh no it wasn’t...oh yes it was!).

A young man without money, he 始める，決める out for London from deepest Gloucestershire and went on to serve as Lord 市長 no より小数の than four times, 蓄積するing a fantastic fortune along the way.

Whittington, who lived between 1354 and 1423, was an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の philanthropist with a 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of amazing 業績／成就s to his 指名する ? for example, he built London’s first public lavatory.

And just as it happens in the panto, he fell in love with and married Baron Fitzwarren’s daughter, Alice. When I was a student living in North London, my bus 旅行 to college took me past the Whittington Hospital in Archway.

There was nothing about the hospital to 誘発する particular 利益／興味 ? after all, Whittington isn’t an uncommon 指名する .

But one morning when we were all turfed off the bus at Archway, I 設立する myself standing next to a statue of a cat. 刑事 Whittington’s cat.

It was at this very 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, I read on the plaque, that 刑事 Whittington stopped on his 旅行 home and heard the 屈服する Bells calling him 支援する to the City: Turn again Whittington, thrice 市長 of London, as it says in the popular rhyme.

I was intrigued. And this 利益／興味増加するd その上の when I read recently that a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 had 爆発するd about the exact place of 刑事 Whittington’s birth ? 明らかに Shropshire had 宿泊するd a （人命などを）奪う，主張する.

It had always been supposed that Whittington あられ／賞賛するd from Gloucestershire. But if that was the 事例／患者, ran the 反対する-argument, why was he 長，率いるing home up Highgate Hill?

Home ground: 刑事 was born at Pauntley 法廷，裁判所 in 1354, the Whittington family home

In 中世 times, as today, Highgate was a gateway to the North rather than the West Country.

I can categorically 明言する／公表する that if 刑事 was 長，率いるing up Highgate Hill, it was because he was under the impression he was taking a short 削減（する） to the 中世同等（の） of the A40. Because if ever a road needed to be 指名するd the 刑事 Whittington 主要道路, it is the A40.

My favourite A-road (partly because I was born and raised in its 近郊) begins in the City of London and ends at Fishguard in West むちの跡s, and it passes through Gloucestershire just seven miles from Whittington’s birthplace.

So here was my Christmas 使節団: to 捜し出す out the Whittington birth-place and follow in his footsteps all the way to London along the A40.

Frank at the statue of Dick Whittington's cat in Archway

Feline friendly: Frank at the statue of 刑事 Whittington's cat in North London

Are you ready to join me, children? But hang on, what’s 行方不明の, boys and girls? Yes, a cat! Like Master Whittington, I 始める，決める about acquiring one, albeit 一時的に. But I wasn’t 利益／興味d in the furry variety ? my feline beast was a new Jaguar XJ.

刑事 would have taken at least a week to walk to the 資本／首都, but in my ￡74,000 three-litre ディーゼル XJ, the 旅行 took いっそう少なく than two hours (承認する, I did get a little help from the M40 along the way).

Forget about Shropshire’s 偽の（人命などを）奪う，主張する, because 刑事 was born and raised in Gloucestershire (it says so on Wikipedia). The online encyclopedia, however, reckons that Whittington’s home village of Pauntley is in the Forest of Dean.

Pauntley may technically be on the f （犯罪の）一味s of the Forest, but it’s definitely not a Forest of Dean sort of place.

The Forest of Dean, which sits in a mysterious world of its own between the rivers Severn and Wye, has been a hotbed of creative talent in 最近の１０年間s.

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling was brought up in Tutshill at the lower end of the Forest; Joe Meek, the madcap 記録，記録的な／記録する生産者 and songwriter, was raised in Newent; and then is there the 広大な／多数の／重要な TV dramatist Dennis Potter, who （機の）カム from Coleford.

While Pauntley is a 石／投石する’s throw from Newent, it 住むs a much more upmarket world than that of the real Forest of Dean, which was once a solidly working-class world of freelance colliers.

It 隣人s the town of Dymock, famously once the home of the Dymock Poets, whose number 含むd the American Robert 霜 and Edward Thomas (‘Yes! I remember Adlestrop...’).

It was in Gloucestershire that 霜 ? who in 1961 was 招待するd by John F. Kennedy to give a reading at his 大統領の就任（式）／開始 ? was 奮起させるd to 令状 his poem The Road Not Taken.

A plaque at the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal

使節団遂行するd: The church of St Michael Paternoster 王室の in the heart of the City of London carries two Whitti ngton plaques

The work 結論するs with the lines: ‘Two roads diverged in a 支持を得ようと努めるd, and I, I took the one いっそう少なく traveled by, And that has made all the difference.’

These are 感情s that might 平等に sum up the ありそうもない story of 刑事 Whittington.

His ‘road いっそう少なく traveled’ begins in Pauntley. He was born in 1354 at Pauntley 法廷，裁判所, the Whittington family home (which isn’t open to the public), and baptised すぐに afterwards at St John the Evangelist Church, which sits next door.

The church 供給するs many 思い出の品s of the Whittington story. Over the centuries, the City of London and the Mercers’ Company, of which 刑事 became a 主要な light, have paid for a good 取引，協定 of work on the building, and 詳細（に述べる）s of their 出資／貢献s are （一定の）期間d out in wordy notices.

An engraving of Dick Whittington - with his trusty cat - from 1784

The legend grows: An engraving of 刑事 - with his trusty cat - from 1784

It is すぐに（疑いを）晴らす that Whittington was no poor boy. But as the third son of 地元の landowner Sir William Whittington, it was ありそうもない that he could 推定する／予想する any 相続物件, so he left for London to 捜し出す his fortune in about 1370.

In London, he managed to get 見習い工d to the Mercers� � Company and became successful, quickly building a fortune from 貿易（する） in 価値のある cloths such as velvet, silk and damask.

This is where reality diverges はっきりと from panto fiction: there was no cat that went to Africa and earned the 感謝する thanks of a king by 殺人，大当り off the rodent 全住民. People making fortunes from cats was 明らかに a favourite 中世 fairy tale.

In reality, Whittington quickly became 井戸／弁護士席-known at 法廷，裁判所. He developed a friendship with Richard II, becoming not just a 信用d confidant but also a 貸す人 of money to the 王室の国庫 ? a 機能（する）／行事 he also 成し遂げるd for Henry IV and his son Henry V.

If you 運動 south from the A40 for about 30 minutes, you will reach Wantage, where 刑事’s 未来 bride, Alice Fitzwarren, and her family lived.

In the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, you can find the 十分な-length 厚かましさ／高級将校連 that once lay on the tomb of Alice’s father Ivo Fitzwarren. I arrived すぐに after a 井戸／弁護士席-…に出席するd Sunday morning service.

The church makes much of its 関係 with poet John Betjeman, who once lived in the town. And in the main square there is a statue of Alfred the 広大な／多数の／重要な, who was born in Wantage in the 中央の-9th
Century, but there is very little to 祝う／追悼する Whittington.

The vicar showed me the Fitzwarren 厚かましさ／高級将校連 and also the 罰金中世 tomb of Ivo’s father William,? who was the 47th 受取人 of the Order of the Garter, the highest order of? chivalry in England.

Family link: The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Wantage, Oxfordshire 持つ／拘留するs a 厚かましさ／高級将校連 that lay on the tomb of 刑事's father-in-法律

‘Do you get many people who come here in search of 刑事 Whittington?’ I asked the vicar.

‘Er, no,’ he replied. The most striking Whittington monument stands on Highgate Hill, still looking much as I saw it all those years ago as a student.

刑事’s cat is shown peering with a 陳列する，発揮する of feline irritation, probably annoyed by those clanging 屈服する Bells.

Since St Mary Le 屈服する church, home of the famous bells, is five miles from Highgate Hill, one imagines that 刑事 and the cat either had 最高の力／強力にするs of 審理，公聴会 or else the bells clanged like the chimes of Doom.

It’s also 価値（がある） pointing out that the monument ? like the rhyme ? 会談 of 刑事存在 ‘thrice’ 市長 of London, when in fact he was a four-time 市長. ‘Quadruple’ 市長 of London doesn’t work so 井戸／弁護士席 in 詩（を作る）, 推定では.

My final stop on the Whittington road was the church of St Michael Paternoster 王室の in the heart of the City of London, where you’ll find two separate 刑事 Whittington plaques.

One 示すs the place where his house was built, the other shows he helped 設立する the church and was buried there.

The tomb is lost now but, curiously, a mummified cat was 設立する in the church tower in 1949 during a search for Whittington’s burial place. This raises the ques tion of whether a cat played more of a part in the real Whittington story than history 調書をとる／予約するs 認める.

I climbed into my モーターing cat and 長，率いるd に向かって Highgate Hill in the hope that the 屈服する Bells might call me 支援する. So did they （犯罪の）一味? Oh no, they didn’t...

Jessica, Nancy, Diana, Unity and Pamela Mitford in 1935

Sister 行為／法令／行動する: Jessica, Nancy, Diana, まとまり and Pamela Mitford in 1935

The 主要道路 that’s 覆うd with literary gold

Many authors living in towns and villages dotted along the 大勝する of the A40 have 設立する驚くべき／特命の／臨時の success.

Like 刑事 Whittington, Laurie 物陰／風下 was a Gloucestershire boy who 設立する that the streets of London? were 覆うd with gold ? in his 事例／患者 literary gold. 物陰／風下’s rise to fame was 予定おもに to the success of? his memoir Cider With Rosie, which recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley.

A40 author: Laurie 物陰／風下 was a Gloucestershire native like Whittington

The village of Swinbrook in Oxfordshire is for ever associated with the Mitford sisters ? 顕著に Nancy, Diana, Jessica and Deborah, who have each written a bestseller.

Children’s literature 支配するs Oxford thanks to the success of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, which was written by Christ Church mathematics 教える Charles Dodgson under the pen-指名する吊りくさび Carroll.

Oxford scholar C. S. 吊りくさび was the author of The Chronicles Of Narnia series, while the more 最近の bestselling trilogy His Dark 構成要素s was written by Oxford school teacher Philip Pullman.

In Holywell 共同墓地, Oxford, you can find the 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な of Alastair Grahame, the son of Kenneth Grahame.

It was for Alastair ? or Mouse, as he was known ? that his father 工夫するd the tale of ネズミ, Mole and Toad in The 勝利，勝つd In The Willows.

It was a touching start to a story that had a 悲劇の ending: always a frail child, in his second year at university Alastair was 設立する dead on the 鉄道跡をつけるs in Port Meadow, Oxford (which 供給するd the setting for the start of the 調書をとる／予約する).

It is believed he committed 自殺.

その上の along the A40 に向かって London you can discover the settings that 奮起させるd The 勝利，勝つd In The Willows. Kenneth Grahame lived at Cookham, Berkshire, where, as a child, he ‘messed about on the river’;

Quarry 支持を得ようと努めるd 供給するd the setting of the 調書をとる／予約する’s Wild 支持を得ようと努めるd. 高級な hotel Cliveden, once 悪名高い as the place where John Profumo frolicked in the swimming pool with Christine Keeler, 供給するd the i nspiration for Toad Hall.

Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie used to live on the Bayswater Road, London, which formed? part of the? A40 before the construction of the Westway in the Sixties.

It was while taking his dog for a walk at the 一連の会議、交渉／完成する Pond in Kensington Ga rdens that he became friends with the Llewelyn Davies family, whose son Michael was to be the inspiration for Peter Pan.

If 刑事 Whittington 設立する fame and fortune with a cat, Dodie Smith’s 継続している遺産／遺物 is 予定 to a dog ? 井戸／弁護士席, 101 of them 現実に. Her novel The One Hundred And One Dalmatians is 始める，決める at No 1, St Andrew’s Place, on the eastern 辛勝する／優位 of Regent’s Park and の近くに to 広大な／多数の／重要な Portland Street? 地下組織の駅／配置する.

The house still looks just as it is 述べるd and illustrated in the 調書をとる／予約する when it was over-run with puppies ? and when Cruella De Vil （機の）カム to snatch them away.