Tag: rural heritage
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Shillington Village
An unassuming county, Bedfordshire and the northern Chilterns with their intriguing place names, unusual geology and landscape history, is worth your time.
Mary Tebje
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Keach’s Meeting House
Beneath the chocolate box exteriors, beats the heart of dissent and nonconformity.
Mary Tebje
A Year in the Chilterns, baptist chapel, Benjamin Keach, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire guide, Chiltern Hills, chilterns walks, church heritage, cottages, design, English cottages, English tourism, heritage, heritage open days, landscape, landscape photography, Market towns, Mary Tebje, non-conformists, rural heritage, sense of place, The Chilterns, Travel, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, travel guide, travel photography, travel to england, travel to the chilterns, vernacular, winslow -
The Chilterns at Halloween
The Chilterns has its fair share of ghosts; headless horsemen, a ghost who packs guests’ suitcases, others who like a drink at the bar, another who will pinch your bum, green men, shadowy figures loitering in places unexpected, a mummified hand, a request for help from a disembodied voice are all enough to get you […]
Mary Tebje
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Beautiful Barton Hills
Just when you think you’ve enjoyed most of the beauty that the Chilterns has to offer, two special locations come along in the same week. The Amaravati Buddhist monastery and Barton Hills National Nature Reserve (NNR). My exploration of the northern Chilterns have thrown up some lovely surprises including; Someries Castle with its very own […]
Mary Tebje
A Year in the Chilterns, Barton Hills National Nature Reserve, barton-le-clay, Bedfordshire, Chalk grassland, chalk stream, chilterns, Chilterns AONB, Chilterns countryside, Chilterns history, chilterns village, Chilterns Walking Festival, chilterns walks, climate change, landscape photography, natural england, nature, Photography, rural heritage, rural tourism, sense of place, slow travel, The Chilterns, Travel, travel and leisure, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, travel guide, travel in England, travel photography, travel to england, travel to the chilterns -
West Wycombe Park
It took a visit to West Wycombe Park to be of reminded why the Chilterns is such a distinctive, compelling place to be.
Mary Tebje
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Evolving Landscapes
Today comes the confirmation that the HS2 rail project will continue to rip through our naturally outstanding #Chilterns.
Mary Tebje
A Year in the Chilterns, amersham, Amersham society, AONB, chalk stream, Chilterns AONB, chilterns cycling, chilterns walks, church heritage, english history, great missenden, heritage, HS2, Humphry Repton, landscape, landscape design, landscape photography, little missenden, Market towns, Misbourne river, Misbourne valley, Rural, rural heritage, rural tourism, shardeloes, slow travel, Travel, Travel blogging, travel guide, travel photography, travel to england, travel to the chilterns, visit britain, visit chilterns, Visit England -
A reason to love the rain
In which a rain storm saved from destruction, a rare 15th century ‘doom’ painting that was left out in the rain. #Chilterns
Mary Tebje
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A Runway Runs Through It
Sir John could never have imaged 600 years ago what would be at the bottom of his formal garden. No more than we can imagine what will be at the bottom of our gardens in another 600 years.
Mary Tebje
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