A few weeks ago, I wrote about paddling in my canoe with George, who was taking film along the Sherborne Brook. If you recall, I got a bit carried away with my own thoughts as George was filming. Anyway. George has put together the following video using what he filmed
This is a follow-up to my last post where I raised some questions about a county council strategy that seemed to include the possibility of a wildlife bridge over the A40 at Sherborne. I engaged with the Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership, who have a coordinating role in this. Although
I have picked up in my research some county level strategy development that might, possibly, include some significant and expensive engineering on the A40 here in Sherborne to create a "wildlife bridge". What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy? First, some context. A Local Nature Recovery Strategy is
I spent some time today talking to a gentleman called Vaughan Taylor. Vaughan was brought up in Sherborne. The Taylor family go back several generations, and indeed his ancestor was the Sherborne turbine electrician who ran the turbine house down by the lower weir. His parents ran the village shop
Our favourite Sherborne musician, Richard Boothby, is giving a concert in Windrush next weekend. Highly recommended!
In a number of recent posts and my research more generally I have observed what appear to be alignments of prehistoric features across our local landscape. I know that quite a number of my readers are attracted by this idea, and many of you believe in the existence of ley
I was unable to attend the cricket match last weekend on the lawn in front of Sherborne House, but I understand it was very well attended, supported, and a great community event. Well done to all, especially Ed Richardson and Jonathan Benson for organising, and to the House residents for
If you had stood beside Sherborne Brook on a June morning in the year 1250, you would scarcely have recognised the village. Our peaceful brook would have been alive with noise. Droves of sheep stretched across the hillsides, arriving from every direction. Some belonged to the monks of Winchcombe Abbey,
Step by step, I've been uncovering the geometric designs of Lodge Park, and in my last blog I showed how Charles Bridgeman had utilised a summer solstice line in the building of a geometric landscape structure at Lodge Park. That structure seems to have 880 yards as a
In my last post about Lodge Park, I promised to explain the link between Charles Bridgeman, his 1729 design at Lodge Park and the summer solstice. On Midsummer's Day last week I measured the midsummer sunrise at Lodge Park and pinned the solstice line with a theodolite app
Thanks to supporters of the Brook Group for putting me in touch with the Waterlife Recovery Trust. This group is running a national campaign to remove invasive mink from the countryside. Mink are an invasive species and can cause devastation to a lot of wild fowl stocks, water voles and
This morning it was the summer solstice sunrise, and as I did last year, I obtained permission to enter Lodge Park and to view the solstice as it rose over the long barrow, framed between the two ancient 500-year-old oak trees. I took some careful measurements using a