Tag: watercress

• The Grande Dame of Ewelme

  

  Every village needs a chalk stream flowing through it, a manor house, old rectory, almshouses, red-brick school and well-stocked village shop. And a Grande Dame.

  Mary Tebje

  8th April 2018

  Buckinghamshire, Chiltern Hills, Travel in England, Visit England

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• Flavours of the Chess Valley

  

  Despite knowing you are out in the Chilterns countryside, I am reminded of how precious this landscape is – some would say lung – situated so close to burgeoning market towns and London. I heard mention many times of the environmental stress that the River Chess endures, from drought, increased demand for water and waterborne…

  Mary Tebje

  17th November 2017

  Chiltern Hills

  Chenies Manor, Chess Valley, Chiltern Hills, chilterns, Chilterns AONB, chilterns cycling, Chilterns Food and Drink, Chilterns history, chilterns walks, Countryside, Crestyl Watercress, Discover England, england, English countryside, food and drink, food flavours, food heritage, John Tyler, Paradigm Brewery, rural heritage, rural tourism, sense of place, The Chilterns, thechilterns, Tourism, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, watercress