On Sunday morning I awoke in the Crown Inn, an old hotel in the market town of Brackley. I resolved to get away quickly rather than waiting for the 8am breakfast. However this plan was foiled by the fact that no-one was around to take my money. Rather than do a runner into the rapidly-heating [...]
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There’s no-one knows me, like this heedless lane: Brackley to Buckingham
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged brackley, buckhinghamshire, bucks, j.h.b. peel, john mason, mere england, peel, water stratford on July 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Quiet Man Bucks Reality
Posted in References and signposts, tagged #hopenothate, brighton, buckinghamshire, buckinghamshire footpaths, bucks, mere england, peel, psychogeography on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The next legs of the journey will take me through Buckinghamshire. This being the case, I have picked up a guidebook of sorts: Buckinghamshire Footpaths, by J.H.B. Peel, found in Wigtown (‘Scotland’s book town’) while on holiday. Buckinghamshire Footpaths was published in 1949, when a Britain battered by war was re-creating itself, and part [...]