TM0533 : The River Stour at Dedham Of this, his oft painted district, Constable also wrote: The beauty of the surrounding scenery, its gentle declivities, its luxuriant meadow flats sprinkled with flocks and herds, its well-cultivated uplands, its woods and rivers with numerous scattered villages and churches, farms and picturesque cottages, all impart to this particular spot an elegance hardly anywhere else to be found'.