Lodge Park before Bridgeman
In this presentation I discuss some conjectures about the lay out of Lodge Park 100 years before Bridgeman arrived on the scene.
Roger Davies
The Historic Mills on the Sherborne Brook
A new venture for the Sherborne Brook Support Group's blog this evening, and this is a video hosted by YouTube that you can connect to from the link below. Earlier today, the Sherborne Archives hosted an exhibition in the village, in the Sherborne Village Club, focused on the
Blackbird sunset
Tonight as it begins to get dark, step outside and listen to the wild settle for the night. The sky fades and the blackbirds mark their perch for the night. Chink, Chink, Chink. It’s a version of their alarm call, but steady and insistent. “I’m here I’m
Sherborne's Annual Meeting
Next Wednesday , 27 May is the date of the annual Parish meeting. It's at 7 p.m. in the village club. This meeting is important. It's the chance for the entire village to get together to discuss what's important to us and see what
Scotland Hill to Coal-house corner - Sherborne's ancient nomenclature
My work with geographic information systems has an interesting spin-off. Above is an annotated map where I've collected place names from a gentleman in the village who's lived here an awful lot longer than I have. Some of the older names of places in the
Time detective time
Here's a curiosity. This is an image, a LiDAR image of Lodge Park. Towards the top left, you've got the Long Barrow with the much smaller Round Barrow just about 80 m from it along the Winter Solstice. And the grandstand is in that peculiar shape,
Standing Stones, Fallen Stones.
One of my recent posts, a somewhat philosophical approach to a local standing stone, seems to have captured people's imagination. I was talking to the Northleach Local History Society last week, and I mentioned the number of standing stones that exist between Northleach and Sherborne. This seemed to
A Brief Round-Up - Sherborne Reminders
Good news on the Ancestor Oaks. Those planted out around the village in late March are all looking healthy, with leaves well established and no particular dramas to report. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to this project over the years. Two developments to look forward to. This summer
Sherborne's Roman Villa explored in Victorian times?
I've written recently about a number of possible Roman sites, maybe even including villas in four or five locations within Sherborne. It turns out that these are not all new discoveries. In 1887, Lord Sherborne was appointed the president of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. He was
Sherborne Cricket match for all!
In a great and innovative step, there's going to be a village cricket match on Sunday the 28th of June, starting at about 2:00pm. The organisers, Ed Richardson and Jonathan Benson, are looking to put two teams together. If you are the demon fast bowler of the
A Celebration of Tim’s Life
Rosi has asked me to circulate this:
Haunting-Water
Sitting still on the Sherborne Brook can turn an ordinary man into a philosopher. Yesterday evening I was helping George, who many of you know, take some film on the Brook. I was there purely as a functionary, paddling a canoe as George in the prow got to his professional