"V knige "Okrestnosti Londona. Sto mil" istorii" (1954) Norman Khillson povedal chitateliam o znamenitykh gorodakh, raspolozhennykh nepodaleku ot stolitsy. Eto kul"turno-istoricheskie tsentry, izdavna privlekaiuschie liuboznatel"nykh puteshestvennikov so vsego mira: grandioznyi Vindzorskii zamok, Kenterberiiskii sobor, Stratford-na-Eivone, gde rodilsia Shekspir, starinnye universitetskie goroda Oksford i Kembridzh... Avtor rasskazyvaet ob istorii etikh mest, o sobytiiakh, s nimi sviazannykh, ob arkhitekturnykh osobennostiakh velikikh pamiatnikov stariny.. .. "