The Chilterns, Part 3 (March 25)

Best thing about walking in the English countryside = the pubs! We stopped off for a half in this pub after Chiltern Church Number 2 . The pub wasn't built in Norman times but is still a fairly ancient pub in its own right, with an old wood-burning fireplace at the back, smoking merrily away.


We continued on to Chiltern Church Number 3, another church whose foundations dated from the eighth or ninth century and had been extensively rebuilt after the Norman invastion, starting with the square tower, in which it is thought the congregation met while the remainder of the church as built. This particular square tower has a double-tile-roof, as you can see here. The reason for the double-roof-line, I am told, is because the tiles were too heavy to cover the square tower with one a single roof. The church is still an active church and the graveyard an active (? is that the right word?) graveyard. We found some lovely inscriptions but by far the favorite was a remarkable stone for one remarkable John Brimacombe. Remarkable!