Julia and I are in Cumbria exploring a rather special church, designed and built by a special lady, Sarah Losh. The Church of St Mary’s is a highly original work of architecture – the product of the exhuberant imagination of Miss Sarah Losh (1785-1853) who designed and built the Church in 1840-1842 as a memorial […]
Today Robert Croser has joined me to show me around the former market town of Kirkoswald in Cumbria. The village, civil parish and former market town of Kirkoswald lies in the Lower Eden Valley of Cumbria, formerly Cumberland, about 9 miles from Penrith. The village’s name means Church of St Oswald and the parish church […]
Today I am on Telscombe Tye, down on the East Sussex coastline near Saltdean. I am joined by Claire Leach who wishes to show an ancient tumulus, a restored dew pond and the cut off village, preserved and beautiful complete with its stud farm. How could I resist?——————————————————————- PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos […]
I am up early in the morning setting out to have a look at the beautiful architecture of the town of Castle Cary in Somerset. I am particularly interested in the roundhouse and the market house, but the church beckons. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like you. If you […]
This is the second of my adventures in Bidborough in Kent with Nigel Sadler. This time I am at St Lawrence, Bidborough’s fabulous 10th century church on the top of Bidbrough Ridge. There is much to see including two old yew trees. And then of course there is windmill, now a dwelling of four stories. […]
This is the third in a series of videos on the history of Duncton, a small rural village near Petworth in West Sussex. In today’s episode I am at the Holy Trinity Church with Ruth Aitchison and John Robyns. Ruth is the Churchwarden and tells me a little about the church and one of the […]