Tales from Watership Down "Watership Down", Hyzenthlay, a doe, rises to the position of Co-Chief Rabbit with her mate, Hazel. A reviewer for "The New York Times" wrote that while it was a "lighthearted companion piece" to "Watership Down", it was "a little disjointed as a stand-alone volume". The book was praised by another reviewer at Salon.com, who wrote: "The pure, unfamiliar feelings evoked in "The Story of the Three Cows" and in the gory "The Hole in the Sky" — just two of the stories here—persist for quite a while after you've finished reading them". Tales from Watership Down Tales from Watership Down
Kingsclere and its sign proclaims it a "15th C. Rooming Inn". The nearby Watership Down is the setting for the 1972 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. Watership Down was also the site of the 1982 World Field Archery Championship put on by the Overton Black Arrows archery club from the nearby village of Overton. The actress Lavinia Fenton, most famous for her role as the first Polly Peachum in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, was lover and then wife of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton of the parish. Their eldest son, Rev. Charles Powlett, was briefly vicar