Monday, 10 March 2008

Charterhouse, Somerset, England

Here the Romans mined lead 2,000 years ago.,some of which was used in pompeii.

Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Highclere, Hampshire, England

Highclere Estate appears as Totleigh Towers in Jeeves and Wooster and also in the film Eyes Wide Shut.

It is also where the Earls of Caernarvon, one of whom discovered Tutankhamun's tomb live.

Saturday, 2 February 2008

Somersby, Lincolnshire, England

Lord Alfred Tennyson, the poet was born here in 1809, his father being the rector,services in memoration of Tennyson are held every other year.

Flatford, Suffolk , England

This is where Constable painted his famous painting of Flatford Mill in 1817, his father owned the mill as well as another one at Dedham

Friday, 18 January 2008

East Bergholt, Suffolk England

This is where Constable, the painter was born in 1776.

Nearby are places like Flatford mill which Constable painted.

Monday, 14 January 2008

Treyford, West Sussex, England

Near here are the Devils Jumps, one of its Bronze Age bell-barrows or round barrows diameters at 140 ft is the biggest in Britain

Wednesday, 9 January 2008

Friday Street, Surrey, England

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury during king John's reign was born here in 1150, there is an Inn named ater him.