Month: November 2019

  • A walking tour of historic Southwark

    Every district of London has its own identity. From upmarket Chelsea to the more working class areas of the East End. Southwark which as its name suggests is on the South bank of the River Thames was long seen as a rather disreputable area, home to theatres such as Shakespeare’s globe, the clink a notorious…

  • A visit to Savernake forest

    Savernake forest lies just south of Marlborough in Wiltshire. It is the largest privately owned forest in England and has belonged to the same family for 32 generations since the Norman conquest. The first mention of a Safernoc woodland was made in 934 in the written records of King Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the great.…