Sunday, 23 March 2008
West Kennet Long Barrow,Avebury,Wiltshire,England
West Kennet Long Barrow,England's largest chambered tomb is over 4,000 years old and was used as a tomb for about 1,000 years.
Silbury hill,Avebury,Wiltshire,England
Silbury Hill near Avebury, is the largest man-made prehistoric mound in Europe,and is 130 feet high.
Fyfield Down,near Marlborough,Wiltshire,England
Fyfield Diown, noth of marlborough is where it is believed that the sarsen stones for Stonehenge were quarried.
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.
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
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