Last part of the Trail

I have written about the Agatha Christie trail before and said I would walk it all and post it on here. Well Finally I got to walk it just before the New Year, Ill post a few photos on here and link the post to to my Exploration Blog

You will find this stile at the Bypass
which is behind me

This is looking back across the bypass towards the sign post

Right beside me is this entrance

to a Gravel pit that has just opened

Further on you will cross the preserved railway this view looks towards the Gravel pit  I passed

You should link up with the footpath that runs past this plantation of trees

Keep walking along it with the railway over on your left if you are heading to Cholsey

 and through the tunnel of shrubs ahead

You will also go through a few kissing gates like this. I will leave you hear and ask you to go to the link where you can see the whole trail from Cholsey to Winterbrook. You can see the whole of the Agatha Christie Trail by clicking the link

Happy New Year

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The Church Explorer Review

First may I wish you all a Happy New Year

This week I start off the year with a review of the churches I visited in 2019, it's something I have done every year on that blog though I have to confess I have never don it with this or any other blog. The daily photo could be about a place or just a photo but not since I started the blog have I done a photo every day to have a 360 like in the first year. I find it a little too much. The Church Explorer will take two or three evenings to produce and on top of that the time it takes going to get photos of the church so I put a lot of effort into it. In the last year I have done very little with Spuds Rural  Exploration other that try and update the blogs I have taken down because of my deleting my flickr account though I did bring out a last one on Diamond Light Source and I have another in the making which will publish in the new year coinciding with my Our World Tuesday Post. Forgotten Faimile is another of my Blogs but that I have just left to update when I can and I posted a new blog on Hermitage ward which I realised I never had on my list, could have been deleted but it is now live.
I could not tell you which are my favourite posts of the year. I post on a few Meme's, Our World Tuesday,  Image-in -ing, Wordless Wednesday, and Skywatch Friday. I also post the Church Explorer on Inspired Sunday.
I will mention some of the blogs I love to visit.
The New Dharma Bums I have been following this couple for many years, I love how they tell you of their life around where they live, I might add as we are the same age I relate to a lot of what they say and do.
Spare Parts and Pics A blog I found on Skywatch Friday and one I love visiting because of the guys love of the Joshua Tree national Park. His photos are stunning and his little helper is  growing up fast
Johns Island I do like seeing the views he shows around Seattle though miss the old blogs he wrote showing flowers the shipping and some of the Historic postcards he had.
Tales from Parsonage Cottage always like reading this lady's story's about life in here village and some of the recipes she cooks up from her vintage cook book collection
By Stargoose and Hanglands John shows some great photos and walks from Cambridgeshire on the other side of the country to me
Ottawa Daily Photos.blogspot. Williams photos from around the city are always a pleasure to see
Readerbuzz This lady was a Librarian and still is at heart from the number of books she reads though he also does some cookery and other things to boot
60 and the next 10 This retired lady makes the most of her time
Lindas Lens Ad avid Hiker who is a superb photographer showing the beauty of where she travels to
A Rich Tapestry story's from a retired lady and her husband in Yorkshire. I love the way she surprises me with trips to around where I live as well.
Coming up Close I have only just started following this blog, the lady live in New Zealand and tells you a bit of what is going on and takes photos from around the area local to her where you would not normally see on a holiday there.
They are just a few of the blogs I follow and love to read there are many more which I visit from time to time. Some blogs have stopped which is even sadder but people have their reasons for this, one of them encouraged me to start blogging  in 2012, this will be my 1550 post I thank all of you who visit and follow me you make it worthwhile.

 A taster for the next blog on the Daily Photo

Happy New Year

St Mary Iffley

This is the last post from me this year and from the Church Explorer. This week we visit St Mary Iffley a Church in the suburbs of Oxford. The church is a Romanesque church was built in 1160 and considered one of the finest examples of Norman Architecture in the country.

 Till next Year May I wish you all a Merry Christmas

Newbury Sky

During the week my wife & I went to Newbury for some Christmas Shopping while she went off to find some stocking fillers I went down the canal to get a few sky shots.

 Newbury Lock on the River Kennet

 From the lock looking towards West Mills

 Another look along the Kennet to West Mills

Back across the lock towards Town

That is the last one from me this year I'll be back in the new year with more photo's from around Oxfordshire & Berkshire

May you all have a Happy Christmas & New Year

Merry Christmas

Santa's Grotto

Couple of weeks ago we visited a Garden centre and while looking around the Christmas fair noticed Santa's Grotto

 He was there outside waiting for you to go in

 The place looked magical with lights and animals

 In the corner Santa's Grotto

But the man himself was not at home

 We left the place waiting for the children eagerly going to see Santa

With that I will leave you for year, I'm taking a break till the new year

Merry Christmas Everyone

Rose Hill Cemetery

This week the Church Explorer visits Rose Hill Cemetery in Oxford, one of the of five cemetery's around the city

Worcester sky

I was in Worcester the other day for some business I was sorting out and too a train ending up at the wrong station, Foregate Street
Lucky it did not matter as the next train for Oxford stopped there. While waiting I took a couple of photos from the bridge looking towards town.

Looking South over the city towards the Cathedral you can see the tower centre photo

Looking North the near spire belongs to the Baptist church the second I think is redundant and is now St Mary's Court so maybe Offices or flats

Looking through the station towards Shrub Hill the main station

Finally the way home with blue sky overhead

Happy Skywatch

Happy Snowman

Iffley (Oxford)

 I happened to be visiting the Church in Iffley near Oxofrd last week and while there took a few photos of the village near the church. Iffley dates back to before the Domesday book and you can read a little on the village in the link.

Walking through the churchyard you pass this house that backs onto it, may well have been the rectory

From the churchyard gate you look down the road through the village called Church Way

where you can see this thatched building

There are a couple of doors leading into it which is now used as a church hall it used to be the Parochial School 

the second door tells you it was the Infant School established in 1854 so it was divided into two schools

 Looking further down Church Way

Iffley Glebe

This looks like come conserved area for the local people to use

Mill lane passes a building called the Vestry and the one in the distance I passed by in the churchyard.

Nice little village full of history

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