I've been in Salisbury last year's summer, and visited the cathedral too. The chapter house was still undergoing repairs and it was closed to the public :( . However I got to visit the nearby Stonehenge and the city itself is well worth a visit too. Blighty has such a huge lot of historic (and pre-historic) places to visit that it could take a life to get to know all of them.
Gaston On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 8:11:40 AM UTC-3, Alex wrote: 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 neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to neoni...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9968ae8d-c33f-4a59-b8ab-86f10ad41707%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
