Autumn at Buckland Abbey
Autumn has come to Buckland Abbey. Sheep graze peacefully in the field watching us walk past. The river flows quickly. A pheasant,...
Let the music play on....
The music has played this weekend and I have been lucky enough to hear the sound of many voices raised both for the sacred and the...
It takes a Village
My Great, Great Grandmother Barbara Lee was born in the Devon village of Chagford, deep in Dartmoor. With her husband Abraham, whom she...
Sailing Tudor Seas
Henry VIII's pride and joy was the Mary Rose. First built in 1511 and in service for 34 years it sank quite spectacularly in 1545 with a...
Being in Buckfastleigh
My goal in staying four weeks in Buckfastleigh was to get to live and feel like a local in the old market town that my Hayman ancestors...
I have walked "this green and pleasant land"
"And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures...
On the Tudor Trail
It has been a true highlight to wander across England as I have and to be able to be so close to where so much Tudor history has...
My History Weekend in Winchester
Sitting at my desk at work one bleak day, surfing UK websites and dreaming of an escape, I discovered an event who's lure was surely a...
Saturday; another day, another journey....
There have been days that have been so full and exciting and they have past on the heels of each other so fast that I have struggled to...
The Literary Landscape
There are the obvious well known connections between locations and famous authors here in England - Shakespeare and Stratford upon Avon,...
