Lynchcombe Steps
Back in May I visited Lynchcombe to check on the nature reserve for which I am a volunteer warden for the Somerset Wildlife Trust. It is September now and it has been another fascinating...
Monthly Archive: May 2019
South Somerset Churches
With the sun out it was a great day for a cycle trip around some of the villages of South Somerset. Baltonsborough I arrived in Baltonsborough just as the hay was being cut in...
Lydford On Fosse
West Lyford Tucked away in the countryside, out of sight from the busy cross roads of the Fosse Way (aka A37) and the B3153 is the small village of West Lydford. The River Blue...
Perry Mead
Perry Mead Perry Mead is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve in South Somerset. Its a small but beautiful patch of grassland along the banks of the River Cary. To me there is a...
Pitcombe Valley
I recently visited the church at the tiny village of Pitcombe near Wincanton in Somerset. The church sits in a deep valley that cuts through the steep hills around Bruton. This valley to a...
Compton Pauncefoot
April Back in April the trees were bare after the long cold winter. A few primroses poked through the ground in front of the church. May Now in May, the countryside has come to...
Alford
I have been looking though my pictures recently and noticed a big hole in my church pictures. The entire centre of Somerset was missing! So today I picked the tiny village of Alford. As...
Lynchcombe Steps
Lynchcombe Nature Reserve Middle of May is probably my favourite time of year. The spring flowers are out and summer is just over the horizon. At Lynchcombe, following Blackthorn, the Hawthorn trees are out...
Round Wood
Milton Hill Each lunch time I would walk around the woods above Wells in Somerset. The walk was a barometer telling me the progress of the seasons. When the wood anemones were about to...
Pitcombe
South Somerset is a land of small villages. Many of these are tucked away is hidden valleys. One of these is the tiny village of Pitcombe. I did not know where Pitcombe was until...
