The Quest for England
The next Bald Explorer is slowly coming together. After much reading about the Welsh Marches and the Norman Invasion, the raids from the Welsh and the building of Offa’s Dyke by the Saxon King, I am examining the potential site of Caracticus’s last stand. No one really can say for sure where the ancient Briton […]
Harriet and I headed out to investigate the other Caer Caradoc in South Shropshire. Locally this iron age hill fort is known as Camp Caracticus or Camp Caradoc. It is a wonderful example of such an ancient encampment and many people believe that this is the position of the last stand that the Chieftain Caracticus […]
Richard and Harriet take a walk along Offa’s Dyke near the lovely town of Montgomery in Montgomershire in Wales. Offa’s Dyke is a massive linear earthwork, roughly followed by some of the current border between England and Wales. In places, it is up to 65 feet (19.8 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 […]
If you look on the usual maps of Great Britain, you may well find such exciting places as the Peak District, the Malverns and the New Forest, but curiously you wont necessarily find a label announcing the Marches. And that is unusual because the March of Wales has been around, in terms of identification, long […]
Bishops Castle is a small town in south Shropshire, close to the Welsh boarder. The castle is no longer there, but was a fabulous looking defensive construction if the reconstruction drawings are to be believed. In this slightly relaxed and humorous walking podcast, I am with my friend Harriet and we are taking a gentle […]
While filming the Bald Explorer Episode 2 at Myddle Castle in North Shropshire in the village of the same name, we discovered to our delight that a herd of Alpacas were grazing in the vicinity of the old ruins. Naturally, I wanted to grab a quick interview with Val who has set up Castle Farm […]