This fabulous free magazine dropped through my letterbox this morning – Totally Telford (The great outdoors edition).
It is the first issue of a magazine produced by Telford and Wrekin Council.It has lovely ideas for places to walk, cycle and generally enjoy the outdoors. There are features on local towns, local shopping opportunities and a couple [...]
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Totally Telford
2 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2021
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
Fishbourne Roman Palace
A C1 AD formal Roman courtyard garden, enclosed within the partly excavated wings of a Roman palace and reconstructed according to field evidence revealed through excavation and planted in accordance with known contemporary planting styles.
HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT
The site at Fishbourne was first occupied by the Romans as a military base in the early stages of the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2021
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
Gregory Bateson
10 Comments CherryPie on May 23rd 2021
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
Stonehenge Walk
10 Comments CherryPie on May 22nd 2021
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Sherborne Abbey
Although there was probably an earlier Celtic church on the site Aldhelm is celebrated as the founder of the Christian Church in Sherborne in 705 AD. Founded as a cathedral it became an Abbey in 1075 before finally becoming the parish church of Sherborne with the dissolution of the monasteries. For many it is still [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 20th 2021
Filed under Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Sherborne Castle and Gardens
The name “Sherborne Castle” was then applied to the new house, though today the term Sherborne New Castle is generally used to refer to it, in the same manner as “Sherborne Old Castle” is used for the ruins.
Through the early and mid-18th century William, 5th Lord Digby,[7] who laid out the grounds praised by Alexander Pope, and his [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 19th 2021
