Category: Bruton

Dawn over Greens Combe to King Alfreds Tower - Bruton, Somerset, UK. ID 808_1465

Green’s Combe Farm

Just north of Bruton in Somerset is Creech Hill. This is one of the highest points in the landscape at 199 metres.  On the road over the hill is a small triangle with enough...

Dawn over Greens Combe to St Alfreds Tower - Bruton, Somerset, UK. ID 808_1409

Alfreds Tower Sunrise

It was 7 am on a cold autumn day high up on the top of Creech Hill near Bruton in Somerset.  Mist was sitting in the valleys between Green’s Combe and King Alfred’s Tower....

Morning Mist at Bruton

Somerset Mist

The 1st of September and the Somerset Mist season gets started with a bang.   The best places for mist in Somerset are the Levels and Blackmore Vale. I’m lucky to regularly travel between these.  Hoping for mist I...

Bruton Dovecote

Bruton Dovecote

I’m still being diverted via Bruton on my way to work.  This town’s best known landmark is the ancient Dovecote.  Built around 400 years ago the Dovecote may have originally been a watch tower.  Its sits...

Greens Combe

Creech Hill

While I am being diverted via Bruton on my way to work I have become fascinated by Creech Hill.  I have been trying to make sense of the shape of the landscape in my head.  Its...