More from Carolyne Haynes
Bursledon Brickworks, Near Southampton
Once capable of making up to 20 million bricks a year they are the only steam driven brickworks left in the country.
Chawton House and Jane Austen
Two houses in Chawton now famous for their links to Jane Austen and her family
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Helford Passage and the Ferryboat Inn
From medieval ferry crossing to secret World War II operations, the waterside hamlet of Helford Passage was formerly a far busier place than it appears today.
Edward Thomas’s “Adlestrop”
An excerpt from a biography of the British poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917), who died in the Great War, this viewpoint introduces his most famous poem, Adlestrop, followed by the poem itself. Adlestrop is a village in Gloucestershire, England, which used to have its own railway station, depicted in the poem. The station has disappeared; the poem lives on.
Image credit: By Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11355993
