These Islands

There are sundials great and small everywhere in Oxford. One of the most impressive adorns the library of All...

by Kit Ward

We all know that precept about an Englishman’s home being his castle, but as the quotation from Sir Edward...

by Kit Ward

John Drinkwater’s Robinson of England is a very peculiar novel indeed. I don’t mean funny-peculiar, but peculiar in the...

by Kit Ward

Nobody knows the age and origin of the Whiteleaf Cross for certain.

by Kit Ward

In my last post, I referred to Pomparles Bridge as ‘legendary’ — and so it is. But while that...

by Kit Ward

It seems you can’t walk anywhere in the West Country without tripping over a stone circle. I came across...

by Kit Ward

Glastonbury Tor shifted from prehistory into the kind of history we now called legend when Caradoc of Llancarfan, a...

by Kit Ward

I hadn’t heard of Tam Black’s shack until I saw a mention of it in a local newspaper, included...

by Kit Ward