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Kilmartin Glen has one of the most important concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in Scotland (around 4,000-1,000 BC), including standing stones and several burial cairns. This south cairn dates from the Neolithic period but was rebuilt during the Bronze Age.
Coleridge Cottage was, between 1797 and 1799, the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in poetry (along with William Wordsworth, who himself lived three miles away). It was here he wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.
The Coleridge Way celebrates his walks in the area.
For no valid reason we left the brook for this Grade 1/2 Alternative Finish 2. A bit loose, probably unfrequented.
This lovely little church not far from Banbury is joined to a schoolroom. This photo (among others) was used as thebasis for my illustration last year called "Holy week" The trees were about to spring into life. One point, the clock on the tower was away for repair.
"Here lyeth the body of John Hopton Esq who departed this life the 24th April 1797.
Here lyeth the body of Dame Katherine Mouleverer relict of Sir Thomas Mauleverer and late wife of John Hopton who departed this life 1803 "
Part of my four hour walk around memory lane, this is Nether Green some of my childhood friends lived here although there was more houses then, you can see were they have taken them down
St Nicholas
Church of England
Early 13th century church, located in the centre of the village, and listed as one of Simon Jenkin's 'England's Thousand Best Churches'.
Chancel
South West Window
17th century Flemish glass.
Now a prominent landmark on the Nether Stowey by-pass, this gazebo or brick summer house was built on the garden wall of Stowey Court in the 18th century allowing the occupants a fine view of traffic up and down St Mary Street. Reputedly a passage under the garden allowed the family to access the gazebo in wet weather.
Sir Thomas Hutton 1620, his wife Anne 1651 brother and sister in law of Sir Timothy Hutton of Richmond SEE ATTACHED
Their son Richard 1648 with his 2 wives Dorothy Fairfax and Ursula Sheffield.
The last remnant of a circle of 8 stones in Standing Stones field, Nether Coullie (about 2 miles west of Kemnay, Aberdeenshire) around 1876. This sole surviving stone was blown down in a gale in 1983.
This photo has been tweaked and cropped to emphasise the view of Bennachie.
OS map -
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