There’s a lot in a name, Trunch has one that doesn't fit in in Norfolk, or in fact in England. Locally it sits...
Lost in a landscape Fragments
Lost in a Landscape: Rich pickings – Swafield
Swafield and Bradfield ‘Fruit picking’ and ‘Pick your own’, are something commonly seen on hand painted signs still...
Lost in a landscape: Little Witchingham
There's a sea of barley, the horizon a shadowed thin night cloud line of trees. In the late afternoon heat this far...
Collapsing new buildings: Barrack Road Gasometer
Another thing to collect, often more by chance than design. These are unmistakable monuments in our urban landscapes...
Lost in a landscape: Hardingham – four crosses
There are axis of travel in our existence, roads that we use often at various times that become embedded into us a...
Coasting: Sidestrand – the moving edge
Sidestrand - the moving edge There are a few places where you can really see the dynamism of the erosion of the soft...
Waterland: Strumpshaw fen
There is something mysterious and magical about the Broads. I've idled a fair while in the past sitting in a boat, the...
Lost in a Landscape: Kett’s Lane, Swannington
I've written about Swannington before, but not Kett's Lane. It's a lovely slice of countryside, unspoilt for an area...
Lost in a Landscape: Little Ryburgh
A bit of a late addenda to a trip to Pudding Norton last year that ended up with a chase around the countryside near...
Coasting: Happisburgh Low light
It's a habit, almost a ritual. On Boxing day we go on a beach walk, blow away the cobwebs, usually at Happisburgh....
Lost in a Landscape: St Theobald, Hautbois
St Theobald, Hautbois In 1982 we were starting sixth form, it's an odd piece of territory that whole mid-teen bit of...
Lost in a landscape: Salthouse, touching the past
We visited the long dead, stretched our fingers out, touched fingertips through the flint and bracken. North Norfolk...
Lost in a landscape: Ditchingham & Francis Derwent Wood
An eye for an eye Ditchingham sits just North of the Norfolk Suffolk Border. It is to all intents and purposes a...
Lost in a Landscape: Weeting pathways
We've been here before. Scrambling about in the past and the past is somehow where this piece of Breckland always...
Lost in a Landscape: Walsingham and the wolves
I have amongst my detritus a book on Norfolk abbeys and friaries, it's a junk shop find from years ago. It dates from...