Walden, Offley & Lilleywalks, old churches, gardens and village history in the north Hertfordshire chalk hills
Nathaniel reads parish histories, enclosure maps and church walls with equal interest. He writes about manors, monuments, bells and what the evidence does and does not tell us.
A field guide to the walls of north Hertfordshire churches: field and knapped flint, clunch, Totternhoe stone, tufa, brick, and how to read building phases.
Read the pieceLilley Hoo survived the 1768 enclosure as open common, hosted horse races for about a century and gave Telegraph Hill its name. Here is what the sources say.
Read the pieceKing's Walden's church stands by the Bury while the village lies along a road nearly a mile off. The parish records explain how that came about.
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