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And finally, I stopped in Shaftesbury, the old market town that my family members would presumably have known well as it's just a few miles from their villages.
According to tradition, Shaftesbury was once known as Caer Palladwr in Celtic Britain; actual recorded history dates to the 8th century CE, by which time where was an important minster in the town. Alfred the Great built the abbey here in the 9th century and placed his daughter, Aethelgifu, there as the first abbess. The body of King Edward the Martyr ended up buried here after this murder in the late 10th century, and Cnut died here.
It was featured in the Domesday Book and the abbey continued as an important site until the dissolution of the monasteries. After this, Shaftesbury continued as a market town, but faced decline as industrialisation took hold in the country. Thomas Hardy wrote of it:
"Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel."
I didn't feel any melancholy, I have to say - even though I arrived at the end of a grey day at the tail end of September, after the abbey had closed for the day. I'd have liked to spend more time there.
#Shaftesbury #Dorset #History #Wessex #Medieval #AlfredTheGreat
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And finally, I stopped in Shaftesbury, the old market town that my family members would presumably have known well as it's just a few miles from their villages.
According to tradition, Shaftesbury was once known as Caer Palladwr in Celtic Britain; actual recorded history dates to the 8th century CE, by which time where was an important minster in the town. Alfred the Great built the abbey here in the 9th century and placed his daughter, Aethelgifu, there as the first abbess. The body of King Edward the Martyr ended up buried here after this murder in the late 10th century, and Cnut died here.
It was featured in the Domesday Book and the abbey continued as an important site until the dissolution of the monasteries. After this, Shaftesbury continued as a market town, but faced decline as industrialisation took hold in the country. Thomas Hardy wrote of it:
"Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel."
I didn't feel any melancholy, I have to say - even though I arrived at the end of a grey day at the tail end of September, after the abbey had closed for the day. I'd have liked to spend more time there.
#Shaftesbury #Dorset #History #Wessex #Medieval #AlfredTheGreat
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And finally, I stopped in Shaftesbury, the old market town that my family members would presumably have known well as it's just a few miles from their villages.
According to tradition, Shaftesbury was once known as Caer Palladwr in Celtic Britain; actual recorded history dates to the 8th century CE, by which time where was an important minster in the town. Alfred the Great built the abbey here in the 9th century and placed his daughter, Aethelgifu, there as the first abbess. The body of King Edward the Martyr ended up buried here after this murder in the late 10th century, and Cnut died here.
It was featured in the Domesday Book and the abbey continued as an important site until the dissolution of the monasteries. After this, Shaftesbury continued as a market town, but faced decline as industrialisation took hold in the country. Thomas Hardy wrote of it:
"Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel."
I didn't feel any melancholy, I have to say - even though I arrived at the end of a grey day at the tail end of September, after the abbey had closed for the day. I'd have liked to spend more time there.
#Shaftesbury #Dorset #History #Wessex #Medieval #AlfredTheGreat
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And finally, I stopped in Shaftesbury, the old market town that my family members would presumably have known well as it's just a few miles from their villages.
According to tradition, Shaftesbury was once known as Caer Palladwr in Celtic Britain; actual recorded history dates to the 8th century CE, by which time where was an important minster in the town. Alfred the Great built the abbey here in the 9th century and placed his daughter, Aethelgifu, there as the first abbess. The body of King Edward the Martyr ended up buried here after this murder in the late 10th century, and Cnut died here.
It was featured in the Domesday Book and the abbey continued as an important site until the dissolution of the monasteries. After this, Shaftesbury continued as a market town, but faced decline as industrialisation took hold in the country. Thomas Hardy wrote of it:
"Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel."
I didn't feel any melancholy, I have to say - even though I arrived at the end of a grey day at the tail end of September, after the abbey had closed for the day. I'd have liked to spend more time there.
#Shaftesbury #Dorset #History #Wessex #Medieval #AlfredTheGreat
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The next stop on my genealogy mini-tour was the village of Motcombe, just over the border into Dorset, where my 3x great-grandfather's family came from.
I didn't find any direct ancestors in the graveyard, but I did find some not-so-distant cousins - I almost missed this great slab of a memorial, because I wasn't looking for anything this big and grand. One branch of the family, at least, seem to have been yeoman farmers rather than landless labourers like my branch. I think this may also have been the oldest gravestone in the churchyard, the only one I saw with dates back to the 18th century.
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The next stop on my genealogy mini-tour was the village of Motcombe, just over the border into Dorset, where my 3x great-grandfather's family came from.
I didn't find any direct ancestors in the graveyard, but I did find some not-so-distant cousins - I almost missed this great slab of a memorial, because I wasn't looking for anything this big and grand. One branch of the family, at least, seem to have been yeoman farmers rather than landless labourers like my branch. I think this may also have been the oldest gravestone in the churchyard, the only one I saw with dates back to the 18th century.
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The next stop on my genealogy mini-tour was the village of Motcombe, just over the border into Dorset, where my 3x great-grandfather's family came from.
I didn't find any direct ancestors in the graveyard, but I did find some not-so-distant cousins - I almost missed this great slab of a memorial, because I wasn't looking for anything this big and grand. One branch of the family, at least, seem to have been yeoman farmers rather than landless labourers like my branch. I think this may also have been the oldest gravestone in the churchyard, the only one I saw with dates back to the 18th century.
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The next stop on my genealogy mini-tour was the village of Motcombe, just over the border into Dorset, where my 3x great-grandfather's family came from.
I didn't find any direct ancestors in the graveyard, but I did find some not-so-distant cousins - I almost missed this great slab of a memorial, because I wasn't looking for anything this big and grand. One branch of the family, at least, seem to have been yeoman farmers rather than landless labourers like my branch. I think this may also have been the oldest gravestone in the churchyard, the only one I saw with dates back to the 18th century.
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The next stop on my genealogy mini-tour was the village of Motcombe, just over the border into Dorset, where my 3x great-grandfather's family came from.
I didn't find any direct ancestors in the graveyard, but I did find some not-so-distant cousins - I almost missed this great slab of a memorial, because I wasn't looking for anything this big and grand. One branch of the family, at least, seem to have been yeoman farmers rather than landless labourers like my branch. I think this may also have been the oldest gravestone in the churchyard, the only one I saw with dates back to the 18th century.
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One of the reasons I was in the South West was chasing some family history. I've been annoyed that I hadn't researched this branch at the time I lived in Wiltshire for a couple of years, so I never visited the places, so I decided to take a trip.
This is the village, situated on Cranborne Chase, where my great-great-grandmother was born (and her mother, and previous generations). They left after her father, a farm worker, died, and ended up on the Isle of Wight.
The first thing I found was a lovely community shop that sold me a cup of tea, and then a poke around revealed some of the older secrets: the 17th Century Bennett Arms pub; the village pound (a medieval enclosure for holding stray animals); and, most uniquely, the plague stone - originally the base of a medieval stone cross, later used as a boundary marker, and then to place supplies for the plague-stricken neighbouring village in 1665.
#Wiltshire #History #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #17thCentury #CranborneChase
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One of the reasons I was in the South West was chasing some family history. I've been annoyed that I hadn't researched this branch at the time I lived in Wiltshire for a couple of years, so I never visited the places, so I decided to take a trip.
This is the village, situated on Cranborne Chase, where my great-great-grandmother was born (and her mother, and previous generations). They left after her father, a farm worker, died, and ended up on the Isle of Wight.
The first thing I found was a lovely community shop that sold me a cup of tea, and then a poke around revealed some of the older secrets: the 17th Century Bennett Arms pub; the village pound (a medieval enclosure for holding stray animals); and, most uniquely, the plague stone - originally the base of a medieval stone cross, later used as a boundary marker, and then to place supplies for the plague-stricken neighbouring village in 1665.
#Wiltshire #History #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #17thCentury #CranborneChase
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One of the reasons I was in the South West was chasing some family history. I've been annoyed that I hadn't researched this branch at the time I lived in Wiltshire for a couple of years, so I never visited the places, so I decided to take a trip.
This is the village, situated on Cranborne Chase, where my great-great-grandmother was born (and her mother, and previous generations). They left after her father, a farm worker, died, and ended up on the Isle of Wight.
The first thing I found was a lovely community shop that sold me a cup of tea, and then a poke around revealed some of the older secrets: the 17th Century Bennett Arms pub; the village pound (a medieval enclosure for holding stray animals); and, most uniquely, the plague stone - originally the base of a medieval stone cross, later used as a boundary marker, and then to place supplies for the plague-stricken neighbouring village in 1665.
#Wiltshire #History #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #17thCentury #CranborneChase
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One of the reasons I was in the South West was chasing some family history. I've been annoyed that I hadn't researched this branch at the time I lived in Wiltshire for a couple of years, so I never visited the places, so I decided to take a trip.
This is the village, situated on Cranborne Chase, where my great-great-grandmother was born (and her mother, and previous generations). They left after her father, a farm worker, died, and ended up on the Isle of Wight.
The first thing I found was a lovely community shop that sold me a cup of tea, and then a poke around revealed some of the older secrets: the 17th Century Bennett Arms pub; the village pound (a medieval enclosure for holding stray animals); and, most uniquely, the plague stone - originally the base of a medieval stone cross, later used as a boundary marker, and then to place supplies for the plague-stricken neighbouring village in 1665.
#Wiltshire #History #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #17thCentury #CranborneChase
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One of the reasons I was in the South West was chasing some family history. I've been annoyed that I hadn't researched this branch at the time I lived in Wiltshire for a couple of years, so I never visited the places, so I decided to take a trip.
This is the village, situated on Cranborne Chase, where my great-great-grandmother was born (and her mother, and previous generations). They left after her father, a farm worker, died, and ended up on the Isle of Wight.
The first thing I found was a lovely community shop that sold me a cup of tea, and then a poke around revealed some of the older secrets: the 17th Century Bennett Arms pub; the village pound (a medieval enclosure for holding stray animals); and, most uniquely, the plague stone - originally the base of a medieval stone cross, later used as a boundary marker, and then to place supplies for the plague-stricken neighbouring village in 1665.
#Wiltshire #History #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #17thCentury #CranborneChase
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Old Sarum was an Iron Age fort at the junction of several trade routes, then a Roman settlement, then an important early medieval town. The Normans built a castle and a cathedral there, and it was probably the site at which William I was presented with the Domesday Book.
Lack of water on the top of the hill and bad relationships with the soldiers who garrisoned the fort led to the relocation of the Cathedral in the 13th Century, to New Sarum, now Salisbury. Old Sarum was gradually abandoned, and is now left to the grass and the rabbits.
Legend says that the site for the new cathedral was chosen when an arrow was shot down into the valley, landing where the building now stands.
#History #Folklore #Wiltshire #Medieval #Prehistory #RomanHistory #OldSarum
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Old Sarum was an Iron Age fort at the junction of several trade routes, then a Roman settlement, then an important early medieval town. The Normans built a castle and a cathedral there, and it was probably the site at which William I was presented with the Domesday Book.
Lack of water on the top of the hill and bad relationships with the soldiers who garrisoned the fort led to the relocation of the Cathedral in the 13th Century, to New Sarum, now Salisbury. Old Sarum was gradually abandoned, and is now left to the grass and the rabbits.
Legend says that the site for the new cathedral was chosen when an arrow was shot down into the valley, landing where the building now stands.
#History #Folklore #Wiltshire #Medieval #Prehistory #RomanHistory #OldSarum
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Old Sarum was an Iron Age fort at the junction of several trade routes, then a Roman settlement, then an important early medieval town. The Normans built a castle and a cathedral there, and it was probably the site at which William I was presented with the Domesday Book.
Lack of water on the top of the hill and bad relationships with the soldiers who garrisoned the fort led to the relocation of the Cathedral in the 13th Century, to New Sarum, now Salisbury. Old Sarum was gradually abandoned, and is now left to the grass and the rabbits.
Legend says that the site for the new cathedral was chosen when an arrow was shot down into the valley, landing where the building now stands.
#History #Folklore #Wiltshire #Medieval #Prehistory #RomanHistory #OldSarum
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Old Sarum was an Iron Age fort at the junction of several trade routes, then a Roman settlement, then an important early medieval town. The Normans built a castle and a cathedral there, and it was probably the site at which William I was presented with the Domesday Book.
Lack of water on the top of the hill and bad relationships with the soldiers who garrisoned the fort led to the relocation of the Cathedral in the 13th Century, to New Sarum, now Salisbury. Old Sarum was gradually abandoned, and is now left to the grass and the rabbits.
Legend says that the site for the new cathedral was chosen when an arrow was shot down into the valley, landing where the building now stands.
#History #Folklore #Wiltshire #Medieval #Prehistory #RomanHistory #OldSarum
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Old Sarum was an Iron Age fort at the junction of several trade routes, then a Roman settlement, then an important early medieval town. The Normans built a castle and a cathedral there, and it was probably the site at which William I was presented with the Domesday Book.
Lack of water on the top of the hill and bad relationships with the soldiers who garrisoned the fort led to the relocation of the Cathedral in the 13th Century, to New Sarum, now Salisbury. Old Sarum was gradually abandoned, and is now left to the grass and the rabbits.
Legend says that the site for the new cathedral was chosen when an arrow was shot down into the valley, landing where the building now stands.
#History #Folklore #Wiltshire #Medieval #Prehistory #RomanHistory #OldSarum
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From Salisbury, I walked out of town and took the Portway, part of a Roman road later used as a Medieval track, up to Old Sarum, the original ancient settlement of the area.
It was lined with berry-laden hawthorn, blackberries past their best, rosehips, and flowering ivy, and humming with insect life, but I didn't see another person on it.
#Salisbury #OldSarum #RomanRoad #AncientPaths #OldWays #Hedgerows #ThePortway
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From Salisbury, I walked out of town and took the Portway, part of a Roman road later used as a Medieval track, up to Old Sarum, the original ancient settlement of the area.
It was lined with berry-laden hawthorn, blackberries past their best, rosehips, and flowering ivy, and humming with insect life, but I didn't see another person on it.
#Salisbury #OldSarum #RomanRoad #AncientPaths #OldWays #Hedgerows #ThePortway
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From Salisbury, I walked out of town and took the Portway, part of a Roman road later used as a Medieval track, up to Old Sarum, the original ancient settlement of the area.
It was lined with berry-laden hawthorn, blackberries past their best, rosehips, and flowering ivy, and humming with insect life, but I didn't see another person on it.
#Salisbury #OldSarum #RomanRoad #AncientPaths #OldWays #Hedgerows #ThePortway
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From Salisbury, I walked out of town and took the Portway, part of a Roman road later used as a Medieval track, up to Old Sarum, the original ancient settlement of the area.
It was lined with berry-laden hawthorn, blackberries past their best, rosehips, and flowering ivy, and humming with insect life, but I didn't see another person on it.
#Salisbury #OldSarum #RomanRoad #AncientPaths #OldWays #Hedgerows #ThePortway
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From Salisbury, I walked out of town and took the Portway, part of a Roman road later used as a Medieval track, up to Old Sarum, the original ancient settlement of the area.
It was lined with berry-laden hawthorn, blackberries past their best, rosehips, and flowering ivy, and humming with insect life, but I didn't see another person on it.
#Salisbury #OldSarum #RomanRoad #AncientPaths #OldWays #Hedgerows #ThePortway
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Challenge by @Steve_p_photos
1 photo per day for 26 days.
Titles start with 'A' and finish with 'Z'. Please don't repeat letters.
No people/human images.
No description in the toot.
Use alt text to fully describe the photo - a picture of a tree is not acceptable.
Copy the rules into the toot.#Photography #PhotographyChallenge #PhotographyAlphabetChallenge
Day 15: O
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I took a little trespass off the path yesterday, to explore a valley where a 19th century source claimed there was once an illicit whisky still hidden in a cave.
Hidden whisky stills are often associated with the Scottish Highlands, where archaeologists believe thousands lie undiscovered. However it's also well known that there were a number up remote valleys in the Cheviot Hills, here in Northumberland. This location is much less remote and close to several villages; it's also, as far as I know, completely unknown locally.
I didn't find the cave. It was a little hard going due to the lack of paths through the woods, the steep banks, and the marshy patches. But it was also obvious that the banks are very crumbly and there have been multiple rockfall and earth slips in the last two centuries, so the cave is probably long gone. Wonder what happened to the still.
#Northumberland #History #histodons #FolkHistory #WaterfallWednesday
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I took a little trespass off the path yesterday, to explore a valley where a 19th century source claimed there was once an illicit whisky still hidden in a cave.
Hidden whisky stills are often associated with the Scottish Highlands, where archaeologists believe thousands lie undiscovered. However it's also well known that there were a number up remote valleys in the Cheviot Hills, here in Northumberland. This location is much less remote and close to several villages; it's also, as far as I know, completely unknown locally.
I didn't find the cave. It was a little hard going due to the lack of paths through the woods, the steep banks, and the marshy patches. But it was also obvious that the banks are very crumbly and there have been multiple rockfall and earth slips in the last two centuries, so the cave is probably long gone. Wonder what happened to the still.
#Northumberland #History #histodons #FolkHistory #WaterfallWednesday
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I took a little trespass off the path yesterday, to explore a valley where a 19th century source claimed there was once an illicit whisky still hidden in a cave.
Hidden whisky stills are often associated with the Scottish Highlands, where archaeologists believe thousands lie undiscovered. However it's also well known that there were a number up remote valleys in the Cheviot Hills, here in Northumberland. This location is much less remote and close to several villages; it's also, as far as I know, completely unknown locally.
I didn't find the cave. It was a little hard going due to the lack of paths through the woods, the steep banks, and the marshy patches. But it was also obvious that the banks are very crumbly and there have been multiple rockfall and earth slips in the last two centuries, so the cave is probably long gone. Wonder what happened to the still.
#Northumberland #History #histodons #FolkHistory #WaterfallWednesday
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I took a little trespass off the path yesterday, to explore a valley where a 19th century source claimed there was once an illicit whisky still hidden in a cave.
Hidden whisky stills are often associated with the Scottish Highlands, where archaeologists believe thousands lie undiscovered. However it's also well known that there were a number up remote valleys in the Cheviot Hills, here in Northumberland. This location is much less remote and close to several villages; it's also, as far as I know, completely unknown locally.
I didn't find the cave. It was a little hard going due to the lack of paths through the woods, the steep banks, and the marshy patches. But it was also obvious that the banks are very crumbly and there have been multiple rockfall and earth slips in the last two centuries, so the cave is probably long gone. Wonder what happened to the still.
#Northumberland #History #histodons #FolkHistory #WaterfallWednesday
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I took a little trespass off the path yesterday, to explore a valley where a 19th century source claimed there was once an illicit whisky still hidden in a cave.
Hidden whisky stills are often associated with the Scottish Highlands, where archaeologists believe thousands lie undiscovered. However it's also well known that there were a number up remote valleys in the Cheviot Hills, here in Northumberland. This location is much less remote and close to several villages; it's also, as far as I know, completely unknown locally.
I didn't find the cave. It was a little hard going due to the lack of paths through the woods, the steep banks, and the marshy patches. But it was also obvious that the banks are very crumbly and there have been multiple rockfall and earth slips in the last two centuries, so the cave is probably long gone. Wonder what happened to the still.
#Northumberland #History #histodons #FolkHistory #WaterfallWednesday