Places

Ducks on the rhyne

A rhyne (pronounced ‘reen’) in Somerset is a ditch, or water course which has been dug as a drainage channel, and you find them all across the south-west of England and south Wales. I’d never come across the word until we moved to the west country in the 1960’s,even though we came from a similar […]

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Mundesley coastguard cottages

We have a terrace of coastguard cottages in our village, and once you’ve seen them, it’s easy to spot others around the coast. Here is the best shot I could manage of the coastguard cottages at Mundesley in Norfolk. Mundesley is an old place, it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, called Museleai back then […]

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A charming cottage

This pretty cottage must be quite old, look at the windows, and can you just see the shape of the door? it is in the village of Lympsham in Somerset, near the parish church of St Christopher. It is a pretty little village and looked lovely in the sunshine.

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