Back in October my wife & I were taking some walks up on Aberedw hill with our dog. We noticed some fungi growing along the way so I took some photos for my wife to use at sometime
The first we came across on the hill, take note
I loved this one, just needs a fairy sat on it
Grouped together in the grass
Growing on a rotting branch
Remember the first photo, well this was a few days later
These were just coming out of the ground in the dew
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This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Capel Y Ffin one of the smallest churches I have visited and the last of my tour of the churches of Frances Kilvert
This is a walk we take our dog for quite often
I'll start here at the Lees, which is an area alongside the local brook. When I was a youngster I used to come here messing around, there was a fence along the side of the brook and tall Elm trees now they are a distant memory
We are heading over to that area of trees and a barn which are beside Lees Cottages
As you net near the barns become clearer
Closer to the trees and the bridge appears
Getting near the trees the church comes into view
On the other side you can look over the cropland towards Wittenham Clumps
Look the other way the church means you and nearing the village again
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The intention was to walk to Lollingdon and back home. That was the plan only it was thwarted by flooding in the fields.
Lollingdon spring from the footpath
This is Lollingdon Springs where the Brook at Cholsey rises, you can just see the water around center of the photo
We intended to walk across the footpath that runs through this field
First sign of trouble is in the distance, the dark are is think mud chewed up by cows
After managing to cross we started to walk along the footpath
The other side was well flooded
This week the Church Explorer starts his second day of visits to the Clerics trail and the last two churches. The first is St Mary Hay on Wye where after dodging the rain the previous day this time if found me
I'm jumping ahead to last week when I visited one of the Oxford Collages, On my way back I stopped off at St Michael at the North Gate church to see if the tower was open, it was so I paid my fee and climbed up for some tower views
The next sire along is Lincoln Collage Library (All Saints Church)
Cornmarket street, Tom Tower left and Carfax right
Zoom with Shaldonian, Exeter and the Radcliff
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Teddy hall is the nickname for St Edmunds Hall in Oxford one of the collages there. Monty Pythons Terry Hall studied here and another guy called Sir Keir Starmer who you might have heard of. Any way the main reason I was here was because I wanted to see the Crypt in St Edmund Hall Library which used to be the Church of St Peter in the East, I had arranged to see it with the librarian. The photos will be in my Church Explorer Blog in a few weeks time.
This is the church with St Edmund sat on a seat
This was taken back in September and is where I was going this time
When I came out I had a quick look at the old Dining room, I think it is just used for special occasions now
In the quad you can see this building with a huge Wisteria, must look amazing in bloom
I'll leave you with a photo of the Quad as I came out of the chapel, I should have visited the Old Library but did not realise I could, another time. The well in the center is medieval and uncovered during building work in 1926.
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This week the Church Explorer visits St Eigon Llanigon the last of the churches from my second day visiting Kilverts Churches. This is the one where he fell in love with the daughter of Rev. William Jones Thomas only to be told by the miserable fellow to leave it. Rev Thomas is buried with his unmarried daughters.
I decided to take the dog for a walk around the new estate, well the last one built back in 2023 to see what it was like now. The link will show how the place changed
Rain water pond where the gully's empty
A duck seems quite happy here
The grain silo in the distance, I'm sure I have a photo of the old barn as well somewhere
Poppy sculpture
Kids playground, never had one like this when I was young
This is where I took a photo of the original field you can see in the link, no doubt the woods will hide the houses eventually
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