Tag: Windmills

• Lacey Green Windmill

  

  The 300-year old Lacey Green Windmill stands on the escarpment of the Chiltern Hills, near Princes Risborough, and is possibly the most famous for being England’s oldest smock mill.

  Mary Tebje

  3rd April 2018

  blogs, Chiltern Hills, Chiltern Society, chitty chitty bang bang windm, Curiosity, Education, england, farming, history, Lacey green, landscape, leisure, myths, national, national mills weekend, Photography, Pitstone windmill, quirky, seasons, sense of place, The Chilterns, thechilterns, Tourism, Travel, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, travel photography, watermills, wind power, Windmills

• Gentle Giants on the Chiltern Ridges

  

  Landscape plays a huge role in determining the form and function of buildings, not least windmills and watermills. ‘Sadly the opportunity for us to get inside our local wind or watermill and explore the local industrial history is still not possible at this time.Let us hope by 2022 National Mills Weekend will once more have […]

  Mary Tebje

  15th November 2017

  Buckinghamshire, Chiltern Hills, Hertfordshire, sense of place, The Chilterns, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, Travel in England, Visit England

  A Year in the Chilterns, Chiltern Hills, Chilterns Society, Countryside, countrywalk, English countryside, English heritage, english history, farming, heritage, history, industrial heritage, leisure, national, national trust, Photography, Pitstone windmill, rural heritage, rural tourism, Rural toursim, sense of place, slow travel, The Chilterns, traditions, Travel blogging, travel guide, travel photography, travel to the chilterns, visit chilterns, Visit England, Windmills