English Towns and Villages

Stockton

The picture was taken in May 2005 and now in 2018 the tree beyond the Pub has disappeared and a new house may have been built.

Snarestone

A place for lunch in the shade on a hot August day. "Melbourne Market Place is the location of Melbourne's main shops, including the ornate building previously housing the Co-op and a market cross built in 1889, to which a shelter was added in 1953, making it a natural gathering place currently used as Melbourne's primary public transport stop."

A Grade II* Listed Building in Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire

“Our Inn, dating from 1375, is older than the Church. This is unusual as it was common for a hostelry to be built at the same time as the church, so that the workmen could use it for lodging and drinking. During the years, many drovers with their cattle stopped at the Inn on their way to the nearby Old Welsh Road, bound for London.”

We had passed through Oaken almost 12 years earlier on the Staffordshire Way. The long distance walk spanning the length of the County for 92 miles from Mow Cop to Kinver Edge.

We had passed through Oaken almost 12 years earlier on the Staffordshire Way. The long distance walk spanning the length of the County for 92 miles from Mow Cop to Kinver Edge.

No Man's Heath stands near the convergence of four counties. Warwickshire. Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire. "No Man's Heath is situated at the junction of a number of roads. Two major routes are commemorated in place-names. Salt has always been an important commercial commodity, and Salt Street records the existence of long-distance tracks linking the saltpans of the west midlands with other parts of the country."