In chapter two of J.E. Austen-Leigh's "A Memoir of Jane Austen", he states: "But the chief beauty of Steventon consisted in its hedgerows. A hedgerow, in that country, does not mean a thin formal line of quickset, but an irregular border of copse-wood and timber, often wide enought to contain within it a winding footpath, or a rough cart track. Under its shelter the earliest primroses, anemones, and wild hyacinths were to be found; sometimes, the first bird's nest; and now and then, the unwelcome adder. Two such hedgerows radiated, as it were, from the parsonage garden."