April 2017

30th April, 2017.

Apologies again for the gap, have been staying at Hallow, just north of Worcester, for few days, no wi-fi and have been ill again, so didn’t get out much. Above is view north from cathedral precinct overlooking R. Severn and showing tower of All Saints church (Georgian) near to the five-arch Worcester Bridge over the […]

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23rd. April, 2017.

Lowthorpe church (above from the s.w.) has a ruined chancel built in a very different style to the nave and must have been related to a small college of canons established here in 1333 and, along with other such colleges, dissolved in 1548. Church set in an isolated location, mostly surrounded by woods. Unusual royal

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23rd. April, 2017.

Harpham village lies east of Driffield on the southern edge of the Yorshire Wolds dip slope and in the valley of Kelk Beck, a headwater of the River Hull. It was the estate village of the de St. Quintin baronial family until the 1690s, while the church remained their mausoleum thereafter. The ‘Venerable’ Bede, writing

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22nd April, 2017.

Apologies for the gap since last post – had another viral stomach infection until middle of this week which flared-up Easter Friday. April is a month to relish in the hedgerows, roadside verges, churchyards and indeed in the fields of growing crops. This afternoon walked Cliff Rd., South Ferriby, then onto chalk shingle beach to

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