Wessex Attractions: Meare Fish House
It may sound like a chip shop, but Meare Fish House near Glastonbury is actually the only surviving monastic fishery building in England. Built in the 1330s, it is currently…
The Character of Wessex: The Berkshire and Marlborough Downs
The Berkshire and Marlborough Downs is a national character area stretching roughly between Devizes and Wantage. Dominated by the Wessex Ridgeway, it contains many prehistoric sites including West Kennet Long…
Wessex Worthies: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill is one of the most famous, and most controversial, sons of Oxfordshire. Once lionised as a national hero, his legacy has been reassessed in recent years. Younger generations…
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Wessex In Fiction: The Man On The Moor
The Man On The Moor is a 2004 novel by John Van Der Kiste, set on Dartmoor on the eve of the First World War. George Stephens, an office clerk…
Wessex Attractions: Sir Bevil Grenville’s Monument
Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) was a Cornish nobleman who was one of the leaders of the royalist Western Army during the English Civil War. He led 1500 Cornish pikemen at…
Wessex in Fiction: Escape
Escape was a 1928 play by John Galsworthy, best known as the author of The Forsyte Saga. It tells of World War 1 veteran Captain Matt Denant, who in trying…
Wessex In Fiction: The Oxford Murders
The Oxford Murders is the English-language title of the 2003 novel Crimenes Imperceptibiles (literally Imperceptible Crimes) by the Argentinian novelist and mathematician Guillermo Martinez. It was subsequently adapted into a…
Ealdhelm and the Ash
This post was originally published on Dr Eleanor Parker's Patreon blog, A Journey Through The Anglo-Saxon Year, as a patron request from our secretary. We republish it here with her…
Wessex Attractions: Three Choirs Vineyard
Three Choirs Vineyard in Newent, Gloucestershire, is one of the longest-established large-scale commercial vineyards operating in Wessex today. It was founded in 1973, just as Britain was emerging from a…
Wessex Attractions: Bembridge Fort
Bembridge Fort, on the Isle of Wight, is an example of what is known as a Palmerston folly. Ordered by Lord Palmerston, prime minister from 1855 to 1858, and again…
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