This not so serious walk finds Marq English and I taking a walk up an ancient hollowway up to Netley Woods in Surrey, near the lovely village of Shere. Up there we find the first of a series of Pill Boxes built as part of the British defense against Hitler’s potential invading army during the […]
Continuing my exploration of the beautiful village of Shere in Surrey, I turn my attention to the parish church of St James. Once again my guide is Marq English, friend and fellow youtuber. The church of St James is in the Early English style, most being 12th, 13th and 14th century. It replaced an earlier […]
Today I am taking a stroll through the quintessentially English village of Shere in Surrey, close to Dorking and Guildford and just south of the A25. My guide is the knowledgeable Marq English who used the village as a location for his film productions. Shere is a small still partly agricultural village chiefly set in […]
Today I am exploring a small section of Offa’s Dyke near Montgomery on the English/Welsh border. Harriet and Lola have joined me. It is a walk we have done before. Offa’s Dyke Path is a long-distance footpath following closely the Wales–England border. Opened in 1971, it is one of Britain’s National Trails and draws walkers […]
Another snap shot of the life of the Bald Explorer, aka, Richard Vobes, and what he and his team get up to in between producing videos. This week, I am strolling along Offa’s Dyke near Montgomery on the Welsh and English border with Harriet and Lola; I am prowling the ruins of an ancient church […]
Today I am shown around St Giles in Shermanbury by the very knowledgeable Richard Putnam. The Anglican church of St. Giles is well away from the modern roads, approached along a tree-lined bridleway leading to Shermanbury Place, east of the Brighton road. A small church is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but the present structure […]