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Monday, February 05, 2007
Cotswolds/Oxford
After lunch, we drove through the Cotswolds, which is a nice and scenic piece of the country full of bucolic fields and populated by sundry sheep and a llama farm. Following the passing of the Cotswolds, we made a brief visit to Oxford. This was my second stop,(see here for the first) but I learned a new theory on the origins of some elements in The Chronicles of Narnia. There is a lamp post closely adjacent to a door with the picture of a lion's head and a mantle decorated with a fawn. Since C.S. Lewis lived and taught in Oxford, it is very possible that he saw these and used them as inspiration for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thwiofdr-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060234814)
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Narnia Lamp Post
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Narnia Lion
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Narnia Fawn
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