A Round-up of our English Travels
Counties Alphabetically from Merseyside to Yorkshire (West)
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| Merseyside |
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06/09/2021 |
An intended trip through the Mersey
tunnel. Castle Street, antipasto, and architecture. Liverpool Town Hall, Gino
d'Acampo booking. Aloft Hotel. Radio City Tower, The Vines, Filming Silent
Witness. Catholic Cathedral, history, architecture, atmosphere and
colours. Dinner at All Bar One | |
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Liverpool (2) The Waterfront, The Cavern Club and the St George's Quarter |
07/09/2021 |
Albert Dock and surroundings. The Maritime and Slavery Museums. The Three Graces and the Liver Birds. Statues of Billy Fury and The Beatles. How to lose a UNESCO World Heritage listing. The Cavern Cub and Eleanor Rigby. St John's Garden and Wellington's Column. An evening in Gino D'Acampo's Restaurant. |
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Liverpool(3) Ferry Cross the Mersey and the Anglican Cathedral |
08/09/2021 |
The Mersey Ferry. Gerry & the Pacemakers and You'll Never Walk Alone, Ferry Cross the Mersey. Liverpool Football Club, Tranmere docks. Scandinavian Church. Chinatown. Liverpool’s city status and the C of E cathedral. Giles Gilbert Scott |
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| Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral |
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| The Three Graces, Liverpool |
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| Nearing the end of a Mersey cruise |
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| Norfolk |
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27/04/2022 |
Snettisham. The Wash with the tide out.
Castle Rising, earthworks, Edward II & Isabella of France. Kings Lynn
Market Square, The Dukes Head, Dinner at the Dukes Head, Feta and Courgette
Sausage Roll, Ham Hock Rissole, Sea Trout, Affogato, Bunet, | |
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28/04/2022 |
Kings Lynn Minster, lectern, pulpit,
reredos. Museum of Lynn, Eugene Aram, King John's Cup. Hanseatic Lynn, the Port,
George Vancouver Statue. True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum. St Nicholas Chapel.
Dinner at Prezzo. King’s Lynn South Gate. |
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| Castle Rising |
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| The Dukes Head, Kings Lynn |
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| 'King John's Cup', Museum of Lynn |
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| Nottinghamshire |
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02/09/2016 |
The pronunciation of Southwell. Southwell
Minster, the sculptures of Peter Eugene Ball and Jonathan Clarke. The Great
Hall. Southwell and Bramley Apples. The Victorian Workhouse and the Rev John Becher. | |
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Melton
Mowbray and the Vale of Belvoir, Stilton Cheese and Pork Pies: Part 2 The
Tasting |
25/06/2016 |
Dickinson & Morris Melton Mowbray
Pork Pie assessed. The making of Stilton. A comparative tasting of four Stilton
cheeses. (also Leicestershire, see above) |
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Melton
Mowbray and the Vale of Belvoir, Stilton Cheese and Pork Pies: Part 1 The
Journey |
22/06/2016 |
To Melton Mowbray, Anne of Cleeves’
House. Butter Cross and market place,
Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, Carnegie Museum, Tuxford & Tebbutt, Cropwell
Bishop Creamery, Colston Bassett Martins Arms and creamery, Long Clawson
Creamery. Failure to find Websters in Saxelby. Hartington. (also Leicestershire, see above) |
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| Southwell Minster |
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| Colston Bassett Blue Stilton |
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| Cropwell Bishop Creamery |
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| Oxfordshire |
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01/08/2019 |
John Craven & Adam Henson. British Charcuterie. Charles Hanson on antiques, Rick Stein on food and travels. Stuart Barnes,
his dancing sheep, dogs and running ducks. Ellie Harrison. Dressage. Morris
dancing. Mike Burgess’ chainsaw sculptures. Blenheim Palace, the house and
history. The train, maze and butterfly house. | |
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26/07/2015 |
(also in Gloucestershire, see above) Moreton-in-Marsh, ‘Mellow Cotswold Stone’, Redesdale Arms, The Mitfords. Chastleton House, a little-altered Jacobian house with connections with Thomas Catesby and the
filming of Wolf Hall, Adlestrop, the village and the poem by Edmund Thomas. | |
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26 & 27/07/2014 |
Wantage, Alfred the Great, John Betjeman.
Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle, St George & Dragon, the ‘Manger’.
The Ridgeway, Weyland's Smithy |
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| Greedy Goat, goat's Milk ice cream |
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| Rick Stein in the Big Barn |
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| Chastleton House |
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| King Alfred, Market Square, Wantage |
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| Lynne at Wayland's Smithy |
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| Rutland |
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26/07/2021 |
Rutland, England’s smallest ‘traditional’
county. Oakham, the market and Buttercross. Castle & its horseshoes. The
Grainstore Brewery and the story of Ruddles. The County Museum, the Rutland
Regiment of Fencibles, the Exton Gun, farming, dairying and hanging.
Hambleton on its peninsula in Rutland Water. Normanton and its not quite
drowned church. |
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26/07/2021 |
History of 19th century Hall, now a luxury hotel by Rutland Water. Head chef Aaron Patterson with a Michelin star, Paté de Foie Gras, Smoked Eel and horseradish ice-cream, Launde Farm Lamb, Merrifield duck and salsify, deconstructed tiramisu, Mango souffle and lime leaf ice-cream |
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| Buttercross, Oakham Market Square |
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| Normanton Church |
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| Mango soufflé and lime leaf ice cream, Hambleton Hall |
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| Shropshire |
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02/07/2021 |
A DIY version of the sponsored Macmillan
Mighty Hike originally intended for the Peak District. See walking page
(Miscellaneous Walks) for full details |
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02/05/2021 |
Morville Hall. Barn Conversions and bats.
The church of St Gregory the Great. Luldlow Kitchen & Farm Shop. Shropshire
Butter Buns. Ludlow and its Castle. Purple Asparagus, British artisan cheeses.
Benthall Hall, the house and gardens. | |
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04/06/2019 |
The final post
of the 12-year South West Odyssey Walk. A round up of where we had been. See UK-Walking | |
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Churches that
Tell Stories in Russia, India, Vietnam, Portugal and the UK |
05/05/2012 |
Shropshire’s contribution is the parish
church at Tong which has a remarkable and unexpected connection with a work
of Charles Dickens. |
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05/11/2011 |
The first of the 10 Cowpat Walks. See UK-Walking | |
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Cardingmill Valley to Great Whitley: Days 1 to 3 of the South West Odyssey |
31/05/2008 |
The first post of the SW Odyssey which
finished in 2019 (see above). Also see UK-Walking |
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| Morville Hall nr Bridgnorth |
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| St Bartholmew's, Tong |
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| Ludlow Castle, inner bailey |
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| Somerset |
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04/06/2019 |
The final post of the 12-year South West Odyssey
Walk. A round up of where we had been. See UK-Walking |
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04/05/2013 to 12/04/2016 |
Ten Posts. See UK-Walking |
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02/05/2014 |
Glastonbury
Abbey, Joseph of Arimathea and William Blake. The ‘visit’ of St Patrick. King
Arthur’ Grave. St Patrick' Chapel and the Sigeric statue. The Abbot’s
kitchen. New Age Glastonbury. The Holy Grail | |
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03/05/2013 |
John Wood (the
Elder), Queens Square, Gay St, Jane Auston’s former home, The Circus and
Masonic symbols. John Wood (the Younger), The Royal Crescent and the Assembly
Rooms. Pulteney Bridge. Bath Abbey. Sally Lunn and her Bath Buns, The Roman
Baths. | |
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26/07/2022 |
A Restaurant
review, see the Fine Dining thread. Queensberry
Hotel, Olive Tree, Chris Cleghorn, Six Course tasting menu with matched
wines. 1) Raw Scallop with Wasabi and Granny Smith granita 2)Lettuce and veal
sweetbread 3)Monkfish, Vine Jaune Sauce 4)Pigeon breast, Madeira Sauce,
celeriac, truffle, 5)Islands Chocolate yoghurt sorbet 6)Strawberries, coconut. |
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| Remains of the transept, Glastonbury Abbey |
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| Lynne and the Royal Crescent, Bath |
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| The Roman Bath, Bath |
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| Scallop, wasabi, Granny Smith and dill |
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| Staffordshire |
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Staffordshire
Way |
March/April 2021 |
7 posts Walked
in 2005/6 written up as a Lockdown Project. See UK-Walking Page. |
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Annual Fish
& Chips Walks |
2010-2020 |
12 posts. Pre-Christmas walks on Cannock
chase. See UK-Walking Page. |
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12/04/2020 |
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11/11/2018 |
Written to commemorate the centenary of
the end of the First World War. Although broad in approach it focusses on
Swynnerton and the story between two names on the village war memorial. It
includes a previously unpublished letter from one of them, written to his
fiancée the night before he was killed. | |
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02/09/2017 |
The Market Square and the fate of Edward
Wightman, Samuel Johnson’s birthplace, his relationships with David Garrick
and James Boswell. Minster Pool, Beacon Pk, and the statue of Captain Smith
of the Titanic. The house of Erasmus Darwin, The Lunar Society. Lichfield
Cathedral and the shrine of St Chad. | |
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Cowpat Walks |
2011-2016 |
10 circular
walks, 8 of them in Staffordshire. See UK-Walking Page. |
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Walking the
Upper Dove Valley |
25/06/2015 |
A walk in the Peak District. See UK-Walking Page. |
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Aqualate Mere
and Norbury Junction |
18/01/2012 |
A walk round the biggest natural lake in
the Midlands (and it’s not very big). Old houses and canals. See UK-Walking Page. |
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02/10/2011 |
The title says it all. |
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The Stone Circle |
03 to 05 2011 |
3 posts. A 3-day circular walk around
Stone. See UK-Walking Page. |
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Republican*
Ramble Round Ramshaw Rocks |
30/04/2011 |
A walk in the Peak District avoiding a
royal wedding. See UK-Walking Page. |
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Baswich to
Swynnerton |
04/12/2010 |
A two day walk compressed into one post.
See UK-Walking Page. |
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27/11/2010 |
Different ways different countries fail
to deal with challenging weather. |
Staffordshire is also labelled in
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Lost and Forgotten - Things Big and Little that Disappeared for Centuries |
27/02/2020 |
Staffordshire’s contribution to this
international collection is the Staffordshire Hoard. |
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23/11/2014 |
A few warmer places than Staffordshire. | |
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24/08/2013 |
The Staffordshire contribution to this
group of useless constructions is Mow Cop Castle just north of Stoke on Trent |
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| Suffolk |
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11/07/2024 |
Fish shacks, Smoked eel haddock paté. Preparing a Dover sole. Samphire. Cod & chips. A fillet of plaice. Crab thermidor. Baron Bigod & White Wensum cheeses. The Suffolk Salami Co. and Suffolk chorizo | |
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Walking round Aldeburgh |
02/07/2024 |
Coming soon. |
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And more |
tba |
Coming soon. |
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| Smoked fish shack |
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| East Sussex |
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Lewes and Charleston |
07/02/2024 |
Coming soon. |
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Rottingdean and the Devil's Dyke |
06/02/2024 |
Rottingdean, its name and origin. Undercliff Path. The Grange and the Rev Robert Hooker. St Margaret’s Church, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris windows. Gary Moore. North end House and The Elms. Rudyard Kipling, Sussex walls. Croquet club. Devil's Dyke (West Sussex). Geology. HJ Hubbard and his theme park and Funicular railway. Folk Lore |
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13/09/2021 |
The town of Battle. Battle Abbey, Gatehouse, Senlac Hill, dorter, Abbey Church, Harold's grave. Hastings Fishing, JMW
Turner fish market, Net shops. Hastings as a holiday resort. The Landing,
a sculpture on the beach. Alan Turing’s boyhood home in St Leonards. | |
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12/09/2021 |
Bateman's, history of the house. Rudyard
Kipling and renovations, re-staining panels, Cordoba wall hanging, The Kipling
and death of John Kipling. Nobel Prize and the garden. Kipling Statue in
Burwash. The South Downs, Firle Beacon, Wilmington Long Man, Wilmington Church,
priory & ancient yew, | |
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02/03/2020 |
Bodiam Castle and Edward Dalyngrigge. The
River Rother. Bodiam wines. The White Dog, Ewhurst Green. Rye and the Cinque
Ports, Gibbet Marsh & John Breads, Mermaid St, Rye Castle, Church of ST
Mary the Virgin. Paul Nash (war artist) |
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| Bodiam Castle |
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| The Wilmington Long Man |
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| Battle from the gatehouse roof |
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| A Sussex wall |
East Sussex is also labelled in
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14/02/2023 |
A collection of largely plinth-free statues from three continents. In this less deferential age it is good not to be looking up to people all the time. The Sussex contribution is the seated statue of Rudyard Kipling in Burwash. |
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| West Sussex |
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Rottingdean and the Devil's Dyke |
06/02/2024 |
(East Sussex)Rottingdean, its name and origin. Undercliff Path. The Grange and the Rev Robert Hooker. St Margaret’s Church, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris windows. Gary Moore. North end House and The Elms. Rudyard Kipling, Sussex walls. Croquet club. Devil's Dyke (West Sussex). Geology. HJ Hubbard and his theme park and Funicular railway. Folk Lore |
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Lost and Forgotten - Things Big and Little that Disappeared for Centuries |
27/02/2020 |
The West Sussex contribution to this
compendium post is the Fishbourne Roman Palace, built 75 CE, burned down 275
and then forgotten. Rediscovered 1960 |
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| The Devil's Dyke |
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| Warwickshire |
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14/02/2022 |
Introduction to Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare statue, Shakespeare’s birthplace. River Avon and its birdlife.
Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare’s grave and memorial.
Review of Valentine’s Day dinner at Hotel du Vin, chicken liver parfait, pissaladière,
duck breast, crème brûlée. | |
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26/07/2024 |
Kenilworth Castle, Clinton's Tower, John of Gaunt's Hall, Leicester Tower and Italian Garden. Dinner at The Cross, Canapes, Chicken Broth, Beef Tartar, John Dory, Bucelas wine, Cheese, Hazelnut soufflé |
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| Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
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| Canapés, The Cross, Kenilworth |
West Midlands Metropolitan County
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| Birmingham |
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30/09/2011 |
A fascinating visit to Birmingham’s last
surviving court of back-to-back houses, now owned and preserved by the
National Trust. Lunch in a Dim Sum restaurant in Birmingham’s small but
thriving ‘Chinatown’. Thoughts on garlic provoked by this meal and a joke by
the National Trust guide in the back-to-backs. | |
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Lost
and Forgotten – Things Big and Little That Disappeared for Centuries |
27/02/2020 |
Birmingham is one many labels on this
post. The relevant section concerns the Staffordshire Hoard. There is a brief discussion and some photographs. |
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| Wiltshire |
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26/07/2014 |
A review of our very pleasant wedding anniversary dinner at the then Michelin starred Harrow | |
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Lacock |
26/07/2022 |
Coming soon |
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| Worcestershire |
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26/07/2023 |
Review of dinner at Michelin starred Pensons on the Netherfield Estate, near Tenbury Wells. Peta Darnley, Chris Smith. Bread with yeast butter, scallops with tempura kohlrabi, carrots from the kitchen garden. red mullet with potato and saffron , duck breast with chicory jam, raspberry. Flight of wines, standouts Margaux and Hungarian furmint. | |
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07/07/2019 |
Croome Court (in Worcestershire), Capability Brown, Church of St Mary Magdalene, Rotunda, Exhibition of
paintings by Anthony Bridge and tapestries by Grayson Perry, The story of
Maria Gunning (see Hemingford Grey, Cambs) & Kitty Fisher. RAF Defford. To
Deerhurst (Gloucs). Odda’s Chapel and St Mary's Priory | |
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04/06/2019 |
The final post of the 12-year South West Odyssey Walk. A round up of where we had been. See UK-Walking | |
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South West
Odyssey Days 1 to 9 |
31/05/2008 |
Three Posts – three days to a post in abbreviated form in the early days. See UK-Walking |
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| Duck, Pensons |
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| Raspberry, Pensons |
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| Croome Court, Worcestershire |
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| North Yorkshire |
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26/07/2020 |
Kettlewell to Aysgarth. Wharfedale pubs remarkable survival. Aysgarth Falls, Hubberholme, its church and the mouseman. Kettlewell, a walking tour.
Pre-Worboys signs. Dinner at the Blue Bell Inn |
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To Upper Wharfedale and Beyond! 1: Skipton, Grassington and Kettlewell |
25/07/2020 |
Skipton. A tour of the and a walk along
the Eller Beck. Grassington, its history, industrial and rural. The Devonshire
Arms and the Cavendish connection. Kettlewell, honeymoon village. Gin at The
Blue Bell Inn, dinner at The Racehorses Hotel |
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11/11/2018 |
Written to commemorate the centenary of
the end of the First World War. The post focusses on Swynnerton and the story
behind two names on the village war memorial. It includes a previously
unpublished letter from one of them, written to his fiancée the night before
he was killed. A photograph of Harrogate War Memorial is included. | |
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06/08/2018 |
En route: Bess of Hardwick, Hardwick Hall, Stainsby Mill,
Crown Hotel, Harrogate. Dinner at the Crown. Taking the Waters, Knaresborough, Market Square statues. Castle. Back in Harrogate, lunch at Bettys. Walking tour: Agatha and the Swan Hydro, Valley Gardens. The story of 'Katsu Curry'. | |
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22/05/2017 |
York – National Railway Museum, Bettys
and a Fat Rascal, York Minster. Ripon, Tapas, The Ripon Watchman. Ripon Cathedral,
Lewis Carroll. Fountain's Hall and Fountain’s Abbey, Studley Royal Water Gardens. |
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04/01/2014 |
Reeth, Swaledale. New Year Fireworks.
Arkle Beck and a walk up Arkengarthdale, Dinner at The Buck. The Little
Cheese Stall. A walk Beside the River Swale, the Swing Bridge. |
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27/07/2013 |
Parcevall Hall Garden. Pateley Bridge, the Nidderdale, Museum in the old workhouse and Britain’s oldest sweet shop. Ramsgill. In 2013 we had an excellent wedding anniversary dinner at The Yorke Arms, then a Michelin starred restaurant run by owner/chef Frances Atkins. It is no longer a restaurant. The review our dinner is still there, though no longer very relevant. |
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26/07/2012 |
To the Yorkshire Dales and Bolton Priory.
Priory or Abbey? Stepping Stones on the River Wharfe. The Strid, The River
Wharfe with a distant View of Bardon Tower. by William Turner (1815) and
the modern view. |
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| Upper Falls, Aysgarth |
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| Skipton Castle with 'modern' extension |
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| Knaresborough |
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| Ripon Cathedral |
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| Beside the Arkle Beck |
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| Parcevall Hall |
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| Stepping Stones, Bolton Priory |
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| West Yorkshire |
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26/07/2012 |
A quick look at the foodie town of
Ilkley, including the Manor House and the Church and a distant view of Ilkley
Moor, before a wedding anniversary dinner at the then Michelin starred Box
Tree Restaurant. The star was lost in 2018 and the restaurant sold in 2020. I
have not deleted the review as under new management it as still working to the
template that was operated successfully until 2018. |
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| The Box Tree, Ilkley |
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