What is the Lammas Festival?
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” …John 6:33 In the Bible Bread is…
Stonehenge – The National Temple of Britain
Stonehenge is the national temple of Britain. Attracting almost one million visitors a year. Stonehenge is much more than an impressive exhibition of giant…
Canterbury tales and the city
“The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), “father of English poetry” according to the perceptive commentator John Dryden, is the poet’s last work…
Picturesque Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, 14 km northeast of Reading and approximately 60 km west of London, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Henley-on-Thames is one of the most picturesque towns in Oxfordshire. Situated on…
Lovely Lymington
Set along the coast of the beautiful New forest National Park, between Southampton and Bournemouth is the colourful historic port town of Lymington. Lymington’s high street is lined…
Winchester Treasures
Once the most important city in the U.K, it’s little wonder the first and former Capital City of England has lured some of the greatest writers…
Language traditions in Hampshire
English in southern England (also, rarely, Southern English, or in the UK, simply, Southern English) is the collective set of different dialects and accents of the English spoken in Southern England. The…
The Red Inn
The Red Lion Inn is a Grade II listed pub, built in the late 15th/early 16th century, at 55 High Street, Southampton, Hampshire. It…
The Mop Fair
It has it origins in the statute fairs that have existed for centuries. Also known as a hiring fair or mop fair, these were…
The Curse of the Tichborne Dole
Every Lady Day, March 25, (otherwise known as the Feast of the Annunciation) the villagers of Tichborne in Hampshire, UK, gather to collect the…