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Today we walked with Tom and Louis over Boddington Hill at Wendover, where a very big Iron Age fort once existed. Then Tom took us to the village, Lee -or 'Badger's Drift', where the first episode (and maybe more) of Midsomer Murders were filmed. I recall
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Our journey from Devon included an overnight stop with schoolfiend Geoff (OBE) and wife Patsy, at Ringwood, where Patsy produced an excellent evening meal. We drove, next morning, to Emsworth where childhood friend Myra was still cleaning her teeth when we arrived at the front door and -humorous as ever-
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We enjoyed lunch with a relative, Sally, husband Robin and one of their daughters, Violet in their splendid garden. The house itself has medieval origins -with modern studio extensions for Sally's painting. They very kindly presented me with a book which may throw light on our family Tudor
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A grey and windy day for a walk along the coast path to the private town and beach of Bantham, which I am told has just been sold for 7 million pounds (14 M $ A) There is a lifeguard but no money for a tower, so he stands on a
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Nephew David and wife Clare have joined us for a couple of nights, from Southampton. The first pic is breakfast and I can't understand why the windows look black. We got soaked trying to walk through Salcombe this morning, but undeterred, we set out this afternoon for the
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The weather news says it all.............. Our drive from North to South Devon was scenic but wet. One of the many intriguing things you notice while driving across the UK is the change in place names, from 'Garth' and 'Rock' and 'Ghyll' in the
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We were astonished to find that this whole town-a huge tourist atraction- has been privately owned since at least 1066 and only three families have been the owners--the current owner is a John Rous whose family has owned it for the last 250 years. So there is an
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There was an opportunity to dress up...
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We have been to Tarr Steps, Mortehoe, Dunster Castle and to see the tallest tree in England. A lot of pics, difficult to select a few and internet link is slow. I'll start with a pic of the house and our bedroom. The house is set in 1000
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An ancient coastal fishing village -very popular with tourists. We had Sunday roast lunch there, which Mary pronounced 'poor'! Porlock Weir, 2 miles west, has the second highest tidal flow in the world--8 metres rise or fall each tide--part of the flow into the severn Estuary-
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Our first day, at a huge house on the edge of Exmoor, we (our niece Philippa, husband Nick, their boys Sam and Matthew, and sister-in-law Irene) went over the moors, via Watersmeet, a well-known beauty spot on a river, where the National trust had a stand and
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Built in 1750's and home to Disraeli (known by his wealthy wife as 'Dizzy)--a very colourful PM of Britain, it also housed 'Operation Hillside', in the basement, for cartography in WWII--and was on Hitler's 'hit list', since the maps