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Wessex Chronicle (Blog)
St Ealdhelm’s Day visit 2022
This year’s St Ealdhelm’s Day visit is to Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire, a recreation of an Anglo-Saxon working farm. The event will take place this coming Saturday, 21st May 2022. We will meet at the farm at 11.30 am, and there will be a re-enactment of a battle between Saxons and Britons at 2.00 …
Wessex Attractions: Basildon Park
Basildon Park is a Georgian house in Berkshire, built in the Palladian style from Bath stone, and made famous by its use as a filming location for the Netflix series Bridgerton. At the time of writing, it is closed for filming, but is expected to reopen on Friday (20th May 2022). The estate was purchased …
The Character of Wessex: The Exe Valley and Devon Redlands
The Devon Redlands take their name from the red sandstone that gives the region some dramatic cliffs on the coast and provides it with its distinctive brick-coloured building stone, as at the historic Otterton Mill (illustrated above). Sandwiched in between Exmoor and Dartmoor, the character area centres on the Exe Valley, which separates the southwest …
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The Society holds events on the closest Saturday to Barnes Night (22nd February), St Ealdhelm's Day (25th May) and King Alfred Day (26th October).See the blog for details of forthcoming events.