Walking the county towns

READING

•  24/08/2023 04:07 PM

Burial place of Henry I and where Oscar Wild composed The Ballad of Reading Gaol and ‘De Profundis’ while imprisoned in the town

GUILDFORD to READING

•  23/08/2023 05:22 PM

GUILDFORD

•  10/08/2023 07:45 PM

The name Guildford is thought to derive from a crossing of the River Wey, a tributary of the Thames Following the Norman conquest a Motte and Bailey castle was constructed and further developed by Kinds Henry 11 and 111 The simplified Gothic cathedral on Stag Hill had its first foundation stone laid in 1936

London to Guildford

•  09/08/2023 06:29 PM

LONDON

•  09/08/2023 06:25 PM

Maidstone to London

•  07/08/2023 05:25 PM

MAIDSTONE

•  23/07/2023 07:13 PM

Originally Medestane in the Domesday book , sitting along side the river Medway The 14th Century Palace was a residence for Archbishops of Canterbury until 1538

LEWES to MAIDSTONE

•  21/07/2023 09:34 PM

Lewes

•  20/07/2023 09:27 PM

The South Downs rise over Lewes, above the remains of a Norman castle medieval streets Georgian buildings with the River Ouse running through the town Ann of Cleves house was given by Henry VIII to his divorced wife

Chichester to Lewes

•  22/06/2023 03:46 PM

CHICHESTER

•  20/06/2023 05:58 PM

Originally a settlement of the Regni tribe before Romans built Noviomagus. Cissa the Saxon chiefs son then named it after himself Ceaster or Castle The cathedral begun in 1091 by Bishop Ralph, the Norman has a 277ft spire which dominates the West Sussex coastal plain

Winchester to Chichester

•  12/06/2023 08:41 AM