We seem to be back to the monthly schedule. I guess I can put it down to lockdown eh.
I have been doing lots of local walks. The OS app has been really handy in that regard allowing to realise that honestly I can walk to places 9 months ago would have been unimaginable!
I live in a new town which was once a number of small vilages and hamlets and to be fair the many new builds around near me to have lots of footpaths through them. I have discovered small ponds and small areas of reed beds.
For instance yesterday I walked to Harlowbury chapel which dates to 1180 and is the oldest building in Harlow, it allowed the abbots of Bury St Edmunds to offer prayers when they travelled to London.
Bridge under the M11
Last week I walked to Churchgate Street. It wasn't until I got home that I twigged that this 1903 photo was taken there.
well today I walked back, it hasn't changed that much.
This is St Mary's and St Hugh's Churchgate street. The church is of medieval origins and was restored by Henry Woodyer between 1878-1880. I would like to visit one day.
On my walks I discovered a Bronze Age bowl barrow later used by the Anglo-Saxons as a meeting place (moot hill or mutlow), T'he Old English word for a mound or barrow which they reused in this way was "hlaew". This has given its name to Harlow.
