These Islands

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

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

Here is a stretch of leafy road between Wendover and Ellesborough, at the north-eastern edge of the Chilterns, what...

by Kit Ward