Following on from my post last week where I visited the old WW2 Pillbox, my walk continued through the Bentley Priory Nature Reserve in NW London. The name Bentley is believed to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word Beonet, which means a place covered in coarse grass, and Leah, a piece of cleared ground on the… Continue reading The Master Oak – The Greatest and Oldest Oak Tree in Middlesex
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Coronavirus Diary 34 -Social Distancing in a WW2 Pillbox
I was going to post this in a week or two but with it being VE weekend I thought I’d bring it forward a little. I took these photos on one of my once in a blue moon walks, I think around the 15th of April and hopefully will allow for a few posts on… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 34 -Social Distancing in a WW2 Pillbox
Coronavirus Diary 32 – Exploring Grims Dyke
Following on from my post on Monday and indeed April and March, I thought I would finish off this walk with a visit to Grims Dyke. Grims Dyke is an iron age or possible older earthworks that at one time stretched for 6 or 7 miles. Some people think it may have been some sort… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 32 – Exploring Grims Dyke
Coronavirus Diary – Social distancing on the battlefield with King Cassivellaunus – kicker of Roman ass!
Those of us who haven’t gone completely doolally in these self-isolating times might remember a few weeks ago I wrote Coronavirus Diary 23 – A visit to Caesar’s Pond, Stanmore. This post pretty much carries on from there and just 15 minutes walk through the woods, would I hope bring me to an extremely ancient… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary – Social distancing on the battlefield with King Cassivellaunus – kicker of Roman ass!
Coronavirus Diary 23 – A visit to Caesar’s Pond, Stanmore.
If you remember a month or so ago I broke my curfew and went out through the woods to visit a new vantage point over London. On that day I made sure I would take a visit to a place known as Little Common on Stanmore Hill. Stanmore is an area of NW London in… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 23 – A visit to Caesar’s Pond, Stanmore.
Coronavirus Diary 13 – Breaking the curfew for a peek over London
You know sometimes you just think you’ll write a 10 minute blog post and then 2 hours later….. If some one had told me 6 months ago that I would be living in a 1830’s house in a village with a raging plague outside and the best chance I’d have of acquiring fresh meat would… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 13 – Breaking the curfew for a peek over London
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