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[Mick Harper]

Coupla old faves there. Will it be good or bad news if dewponds are 'only' leftovers from clay excavations? We used to get excited by them being lined with clay -- but then again it's all grist for our 'chalklands lack water but seem otherwise essential to Megalithic life' theory. The 'herepath', named that way because Anglo-Saxon armies came tramping down them (Heer is German for army). As opposed to Green Streets which, according to TME, are produced by animals tramping down the Ridgeways which in turn cause green lanes.

You wanna get out more, Borry, that's your trouble. (I'm setting you up for a trouble-and-strife joke.)

[Boreades]

I'll try and get some video of a dewpond or two. If I can get the TME Outside Broadcast Unit to stir. At the moment it is complaining it has got a hangover, and it's cold outside and still persisting down cats & dogs. Situation normal for an English Summer.

[Boreades]

More on Savernake Forest.

Easiest way to get there on public transport is by train to Great Bedwyn. Then walk north west (over Bedwyn Common) towards the southern edge of the forest.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.3846/-1.6311

Which is where one can find not only clay pits, but sand and gravel pits. No surprise that another Brick Works can be found there.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=1 ... rs=178&b=1

If you are feeling adventurous, go south to meet the Kennet and Avon Canal at (what was) Savernake Station. Follow the canal south-east for one kilometre, then turn south, and you will get to Wolf Hall. Famously home of the Seymour dynasty.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=1 ... rs=178&b=1

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... ntel-novel

[Mick Harper]

[Mick Harper]

[Boreades]

[Boreades]

[Mick Harper]

By the usual coincidence, I have just been listening to Stewart Lee waxing about a seventies kids' horror series, The Children of the Stones, about a mythical English village which is clearly Avebury. I hadn't heard of it before (I was an adult horror at the time) but apparently it was, and is, something of a cult classic. You can listen to Stewie here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n1rbx

PS I have had a snackerel at the official (NT?) coffee shop and was unimpressed.

[Boreades]

[Boreades]