Fifehead Manor
Where we stayed
Fifehead Window
View of the old stable block from our bedroom at Fifehead Manor
Fifehead Hall
The Manor Hall is now the dining room
Fifehead Garden
Marilyn explores the gardens at the Manor
Fifehead Yew
An ancient tree in the Manor garden
Stile
I've read about stiles all my life, this one on the footbpath behind the Manor was the first I ever crossed.
Fifehead Horses
Horses in the mist pastured in back of the Manor
Upper Wallop
Looking through the mist North of the Manor
Middle Wallop
It's easy to imagine Miss Marple just around the corner
Chilbolton
The Chilbolton Radio Telescope Observatory
Marilyn at Danebury
Marilyn climbs to the Danebury Hill Fort near Andover
Danebury View
View from the top of the Iron Age Danebury Hill Fort
Danebury Grandstand
The ruins of the granstand of the 1800's Danebury Horse Track
Figsbury Ring
Marilyn stands in the entrance to an Iron Age enclosed village
Old Sarum
The new bridge and remains of the old causeway to "Old Sarum", a Roman fortress near Salsbury. You can see from the glow of lights on the horizon that it's nearly dark at 4:15 P.M.
Crane
Cranes made of thatch adorn the roof of a house near the West Kennett Long Barrow
Long Barrow
The West Kennett Long Barow (See http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMKennet.html)
Long Barrow Entrance
Then entrance to the West Kennett Long Barrow
Silbury Hill
No one really knows why this huge earthwork was built in a valley near Avebury
Pan Bridge
The River Kennett runs between Silbury Hill and the West Kennett Long Barrow, under this appropriately named bridge.
Avebury
A standing stone in the circle at Avebury (dark, rainy, and we're out of space on the camera)
Coach and Horse
A beautiful roadside pub near Avebury
Vauxhaul
Our trusty steed for the visit