Tag: churchyards

• A Most Pecular Tree

  I stood just outside the mossy rock wall of the churchyard.  We were in a tiny English village with a name I would have to look up in my notebook.  I was making it a point to stop and look inside these old Saxon and Norman churches whenever we passed one (and where there was…

  patrickjegan

  June 19, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, Fables & Folklore, Ghosts, History, Memories, Nature, Objects of Beauty, Real Personal History, Travels

  Chile, churchyards, England, Monkey Puzzle Tree

• I Never Met An English Country Church I Didn’t Like

  [St. John the Baptist, Buckthorn Weston, Dorset] It’s been said by many travelers that if one wants to know what’s happening in any small English village, just go to the pub and listen for an hour.  I think the same is true, to a degree, of social life provided by the Church in these towns…

  patrickjegan

  June 4, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, History, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Travels

  baptism fonts, churchyards, Dorset, effigy, English country churches, kneelers, lychgate, pews

• Looking For A Silk Mill And Finding Barton Stacey

  It was clearly shown on the AA Road Atlas of Britain, right there on Map 19.  It was a stop I very much wanted to make. We were motoring south on the A34 from Oxford to visit our friends in Romsey. There at a small town of Tufton, was an attraction labelled SILK MILL. Admittedly,…

  patrickjegan

  May 25, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, England, History, Melancholy Thoughts, Real Personal History, Travels

  Barton Stacey England, churchyards, lending libraries, old phone booths, Oxford England, quaint villages, Romsey England, Winchester England