My workshop window has a perfectly framed view of Salisbury Cathedral in it. Maybe one day I will take a Z566 down and get it and the Magna Carta in the same image :-)
There has to be some perks to putting up with the british climate :-) On Monday, 9 February 2015 11:08:12 UTC, Sgitheach wrote: > > > Ancient and Modern > From my workshop I can see a neolithic (4000BC - 2500BC) burial cairn in > the field beind the house. > Beyond that is Black Rock Gorge which was used in part of the Harry Potter > dragon chase sequence in film 4. > > > On 09/02/2015 09:54, Nick wrote: > > On Sunday, 8 February 2015 18:09:07 UTC, Pramanicin wrote: >> >> Ah, but does your village have the remains of a Norman Castle in it and >> is mentioned in the Magna Carta? I think not....ha ha. >> > > OT WARNING - NO NIXIE CONTENT! > > Ummm. How shall I put this nicely :) > > The answers to your questions are actually, "Yes" and "no parishes were" > - the Magna Carta is not about parishes, its largely a bill of rights and > responsibilities. Further, we have the remains (not a lot, I'll admit) of a > Norman wooden motte and bailey fort in the river valley here - I can see it > from my workshop. > > In these parts, we tend to regard the Magna Carta as rather "nouveau" - > a bit passé - the village and its priory are mentioned in the > Domesday Book <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book>, published in > AD 1086, i.e. nearly 130 years earlier than the first Magna Carta, and > Bedgebury > Forest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_Forest> (also in the > parish) is the longest piece of continuously managed woodland in the > Western World, fully documented without interruption (including wars etc.) > from AD 1067 when Bishop Odo, the half-brother of William the Conquerer, > took it over to the current day - however, even he was a late-comer - the > forest is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon> charter in AD 841 . The > current church has been there since AD 1119. :) See Goudhurst Village > Website <http://goudhurst.co.uk/Pages/local_history_society.html> and > lots of other places! The village high street looks much the same as it did > several 100 years ago (except the road is not mud any more!). > > Beat that! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/15ca9b7d-8e51-438a-a6c0-b79181b8d666%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/15ca9b7d-8e51-438a-a6c0-b79181b8d666%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/dd071d81-0665-437c-ade1-b779298313f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
