These Islands

Wellclose Square is nothing to look at today, dominated as it is by regulation-ugly blocks of council flats, but...

by Kit Ward

On the face of it, Milton Keynes is a model of rational town planning, built from scratch fifty years...

by Kit Ward

Boxmoor Common is a pleasant place for a stroll on a warm spring day, verging on the bucolic were...

by Kit Ward

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