If you have not heard we are going through dry spell in the UK they you do now. Some photos I took around the village showing the effects
This was in June
Into July
Wheat field waiting harvest
Thames at Wallingford in July
Note the dry grass
The Allotments
People are watering the crops
Some even have little helpers
This week the Church Explorer makes a return visit to St Michael Stanton Harcourt to look around the Harcourt Chapel which holds the Harcourt Family tombs
Did I get to Churn Knob well nearly
There is a wooded area at the top of Churn Hill where you find this reservoir as there was a crop field beside it I did not feel I should try that way
I did look down here to see if there was a way
Churn Knob is that clump you see sticking up over the rape field
Couple of racehorses out for a walk
Time to go back a different path
and it is not long before you come to this part
With a couple of seats, this one has a few memorial plates on it
It's a grand view you get though I think the trees have grown since the benches were placed
You cans see right across to Didcot and beyond
That was is Blewbury where I started
On the other side of the trees you can see better
The seats are at the top past the trees. the area is an old chalk pit and is now a nature reserve
I will take my leave with some of the flora growing.
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This week the Church Explorer visits St James, Kinnersley for no other reason that I noticed it was near another church I had visited so went on my list. It's an unusual church with saddle back roof on the tower and is next door to Kinnersley Castle.
Churn Knob is just outside Blewbury on the edge of the downs, this was the main place I had intended to walk to so a few photos.
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After a wile you pass this reservoir
Then back under the trees
You soon find open space
And lots of downland
This tractor is on the hillside I went to previous
Stables below
Walk on further and more meadow
Might give an idea how far I am from the stables
More green tunnel
and a space to walk
Across the valley is a farm
This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley. The church does not look anything unusual till you walk in the door and see the most amazing Norman font I have seen
This week the Downs above Blewbury, not many photos as this was not the main place I wanted to go its at the top of Woodway road and was probably not my best idea in driving all the way up as I felt the car ground out not that I was going very fast but I checked when I stopped and nothing looked amiss
This is the end of the road I went up, carry on walking along the track and you will come to a place called Lowbury Hill
Had to wonder what this was in front of the gallops but it hold the huge cutting blades of a combine harvester. Mow a days they take them off and tow the thing, I remember as a kid them driving a harvester along the roads and the cutter only took up a small part
I saw the tractor coming up the road after taking my last photo so waited till he went past but he stopped and mentioned I should not be parked here as there are race horses coming up the road. I said I was just going and waiting for him to go. I think he spotted me driving up and came to see what I was doing. The yellow blob you see is the harvester cutting the field
