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Lost in a landscape: Wretham Circles

Dead cities & forgotten outposts, Lost in a landscape

There’s a lightness about Breckland, A dryness and pallor to the soils that make it feel somehow different from the rest of Norfolk. It’s in the earth, the thin sand with it’s luggage of chalk and flint, the exhausted soldierly lines of Scots pine...

Lost in a Landscape: The Vinegar Pond, Mousehold Heath, Norwich

Lost in a landscape

Funny little pond, locally quite well known, lots of stories about what it is, “it’s a bomb crater” (it isn’t), it’s a pit dug for gravel/minerals (probably not), it was made by Bren Carriers exercising on the heath in WW2, yes...

Lost in a landscape: Thompson – Below the glacier.

Lost in a landscape

When I was at school we had a teacher called Peter ‘Percy’ Williams, he primarily taught geography. At first he hammered it into our small and stupid heads; over those first three years he gradually worked out which ones of us were holding the water and...

Coasting: Happisburgh – Where the wild thing were…

Coasting

Happisburgh, a curious place to find yourself, another favourite of mine, the quality of the light, the changing riven landscape and the beating sea. It sits 20 miles to the East of Norwich, below the stretch of coast where the cliffs fall away from the faded...