Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, charming flint-stone cottages.
Commentary.
What charming but substantial cottages Hambleden possesses.
The Chiltern chalk like all areas of chalk contains
bands of black, grey and brown flint stone – hard, sharp and incredibly durable.
The “knappers” who split this stone to “face-off” the village dwellings needed to work hard to produce the thousands of tons required to finish the job.
The spirit and ambience of this place seems unchanging,
and with a flint frontage, I can see these cottages
surviving for another thousand years.
Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, charming flint-stone cottages.
Commentary.
What charming but substantial cottages Hambleden possesses.
The Chiltern chalk like all areas of chalk contains
bands of black, grey and brown flint stone – hard, sharp and incredibly durable.
The “knappers” who split this stone to “face-off” the village dwellings needed to work hard to produce the thousands of tons required to finish the job.
The spirit and ambience of this place seems unchanging,
and with a flint frontage, I can see these cottages
surviving for another thousand years.