Below are a few more underground bits and pieces in the area. They all share in common, the fact that they are, as it says in the title, underground spaces beneath country houses and religious places. Country houses as well as religious institutions had the money, influence and power to do things on a grander [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dissappeared’
beneath country houses and abbeys
Posted in Underground, tagged abandoned, dissappeared, Fisherwick, Packington, Polesworth, underground, woods on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dark cellars
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Underground, tagged abandoned, dissappeared, Hopwas, underground on December 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Woodhouse is back as the dignified representative of this latest underground themed post! UKurbex put the pictures below on their website showing the pictures they bravely took of the cellars of the now probably flattened Woodhouse, Hopwas(see earlier posts for more details) These photos are an invaluable testament as far as I know there [...]
Offlow continued……..
Posted in earthwork, tagged dissappeared, earthworks on November 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Got some info to add to the post on the Offlow tumulus on the borders of Tamworth Timehikes. Staffordshire County Council HER(Historic Environment Record) kindly sent me the report on the site. Most of the info is from the early 20th century, here it is below: Well can solve the mystery of its dissappearance. Like [...]
Tamworth´s Anglo Saxon defences
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged Anglo-Saxon, dissappeared, earthworks, major sites, Tamworth on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ok back in business and straight into the heart of the metropolis of Tamworth, or at least round the edges of the centre to have a look at the Anglo-Saxon to medieval defences that once surrounded Tamworth. Witness the Fitness, Abe and Ernst are back in training This post is riding the wave of Anglo-Saxon [...]
OFFLOW
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged dissappeared, earthworks, map studies on October 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After my curiosity was awakened by Bill´s comment about Offlow, I decided to embark on this post about Offlow, although it´s a little further out than the remit of this blog. The rule of thumb is basically if you can hike there and back from Tamworth, or more specifically Leyfields within a day then it’s [...]
CHASING WINDMILLS:THE LAST CRUSADE
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, coton green, dissappeared, housing estates, woods on October 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Windmill Farm taken from OS OpenData showing windmill farm and windmill Close, located on outer limit of Coton Green, Tamworth, click on for larger view. This is the best candidates for Tamworth´s very own windmill. Moneymore mill is on the outer limits of this blogs area and windmill hill, Whittington is a big maybe. Windmill´s [...]
