If you’re there as the sun falls behind the mystic Trossachs, use the last of the light to read about the Holy Rude and it’s history; it's the only surviving Scottish church to have seen a coronation, & arguing clerics led to a wall being built across the inside!
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The views from this part of the city are arresting & glorious, especially at sunset from the Holy Rude graveyard which climbs around the hillside, looking out towards the beguiling Trossach Hills in the far distance. From the castle, the world rolls out around you in a fine definition of ‘epic’.
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You could use our map to navigate this lovely city today, although the U.P. Church of 1860 is now a nice hostel & a visit to the prison next door will be briefer these days.
If you make it this far up the hill (of a gradient no map can give justice) the Kirk & Castle are only a little further on.
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Today, millions of containers & passenger pass through.
“It's interesting to walk around Ocean Village & contemplate its social & industrial history, Victorian legacy, age of the Atlantic liners, effect of two World Wars & now globalisation.” –Tony Painter.
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Warfare disrupted the docks regularly & aided the increase in facilities.
Many famous Liverpool liner companies began moving here in the 1850s-70s, and the Titanic famously left #Southampton on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, impacting 600 local families who lost seafaring wage earning loved ones.
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The continual prosperity and development noted in Tony Painter’s brilliantly compelling map notes is starkly contrasted by his discussion on the deathly poverty of it’s dockworkers, the poor pay and terrible living conditions of the city’s inhabitants.
(Map - Southampton Docks 1931)
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- Andrew.

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The history of the town stretches back beyond the Norman invasion of 1066, & soon after this a castle was built nearby with later links to Henry IV (1367 – 1414). Aside from this rich #history and the links to footwear, Higham Ferrers was for a long time a key stopping off point for travellers.
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Another notable son of the town was Henry Chichele (c1363 – 1443), among many of his achievements he was Bishop of St David’s and Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as being at the Battle of #Agincourt. He also founded All Souls College, Oxford, and left his footprint upon the town of his birth.
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Isn’t it joyful to open a map and find a happy childhood memory? No, not Pitdown Man – Pooh Bear! You’ll find this map here - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/one303.htm - along with almost 4,000 other potential memory unlocking items.

“…The Five Hundred Acre Wood ... became the Hundred Acre Wood in the books, while the North Pole and the Gloomy Place were in Wrens Warren Valley, a short distance N of Gills Lap. A bridge of 1907, rebuilt in 1997 at the edge of Posingford Wood near Chuck Hatch, is knows as Pooh Sticks Bridge...”
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“...Winnie the Pooh was published the following year... Christopher Robin Milne (1920-96), for whom the books were written, whose fame brought him unhappiness wrote that “anyone who has read the stories knows the Forest… Pooh’s Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical”.”

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“Ashdown Forest has strong associations with Pooh Bear and his friends. In 1925, their creator, A. A. Milne (1882-1956), bought Cotchford Farm, marked on the map about a mile S of Hartfield…”

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