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Dovecotes One Thousand Years of History

January 30, 2024 Buildings
The castle seen from the east,

Conway Castle and the Smallest House in Britain

January 29, 2024 Buildings
Probably the stump of a medieval cross, it found later use as a plague stone. Commercial transactions took place here to quarantine the village. Goods were left here and payment placed in the trough on the left

Plague Stones, Keep Your Eye Out for Them

January 28, 2024 Ancient
Plague Cross, Ross-on-Wye. Situated in the corner of St. Mary's churchyard. Image

Plague Crosses, What Exactly are They?

January 28, 2024 Ancient
Ruins of Caergwrle Castle and its medieval moat in the foreground, now abandoned.

The History of Medieval Moats

January 3, 2024 Buildings

The Story of Our Prehistoric Woodlands

January 3, 2024 Woodland
Roman road near Hobbs Cross, Essex, and at this point within the civil parish of Theydon Mount. The Roman road from London to Dunmow passes under the M25 London Orbital Motorway just to the south-west and survives here as a bridleway

Britain’s Roman Roads, Their Development

January 2, 2024 Ancient
Corpse road, Keld, North Yorkshire, England

Corpse Roads, Coffin Roads, a Medieval Legacy

January 2, 2024 Landscape

Wayside Crosses, What Exactly Are They?

January 2, 2024 Buildings
Christchurch: the ducking stool. Ready to dunk any miscreants into the Avon at the end of the aptly named Ducking Stool Lane!

Ducking Stools Were Used in Medieval England

December 30, 2023 Old Ways

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