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This post first appeared in 2016. I love this time of year.  Especially in the Chiltern Hills. I’m lucky enough to live on the door step of the Chilterns and to be able to take a walk in the area whenever I get the chance.  I’ve been w...

This post first appeared in 2015. The Stonehenge area has been much in the news recently. Today (21st September 2015) is the 100th anniversary of the last private sale of the monument, bought for £6,600 by local man Cecil Chubb at an auction...

This post first appeared in 2014. Here’s a typical eight mile walk to Silchester, the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, once one of the largest towns in Roman Britain. We would meet at Reading or Basingstoke and, after a short train ride to ...

You have seen them on television; now visit the places themselves.  I’m talking of those idyllic villages where Barnaby is called in to solve a string of murders.  The counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire are home to many of the locati...