Friday 27 June 2014

Logiston Herefordshire

Last night we had dinner in an  old  pub that has been made into an Indian restaurant.  The food was very good and they are trying so hard to make a success of the restaurant. Like in Australia many country villages are struggling to maintain their populations and consequently their services. The restaurant was in Wembley where Karen used to run a bookshop once. It is a charming village with many black and white houses (Elizabethan style?) and pretty stone houses with summer flowers.
I overslept and finally roused myself at 9:00 am. The weather has turned wet but Andy needs to deliver some books to a bookshop in Kington and Karen needs to do some shopping for a BBQ on Saturday so we head out and wind through many country lanes to get to town. They puill over for me to take some pictures and later I visit a couple of churches. Here the churches had bell towers separate from the churches which were used as refuges when the villages were invaded by outlaws or the Welsh. 
St. Mary's in Kington. This church has a ghost. The black dog of  Hergest which may have inspired the story,The Hounds of the Baskervilles.

Separate bell tower and refuge yet such a graceful building.
Kington had a castle to protect the border and was named Kimgton by Harold of 1066 and the invasion of England fame.
After we return home Karen and I pick raspberries from the garden and decide to plant out some peas before there is too much more rain. The vegetable garden is huge and everything is growing lushly. 
I ate as I picked. It is such a treat to get so many raspberries!
Karen shows me where the Logiston common is and a few paths for walking to the nearest town. 

1 comment:

  1. yummy berries! did you know bananas are berries too?

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