The Wittenham Clumps are local landmarks in Oxfordshire, and they are just that: clumps of trees on otherwise bare hills. Their names are Castle Hill and Round Hill. This is the view of Castle Hill from Round Hill...
Travels in the United Kingdom 1997
Wittenham and Dorchester
The Wittenham Clumps are local landmarks in Oxfordshire, and they are just that: clumps of trees on otherwise bare hills. Their names are Castle Hill and Round Hill. This is the view of Castle Hill from Round Hill...
...and this is the vice-versa view from the other clump, so this is the view of Round Hill from Castle Hill...
Near the Clumps are the villages of Long Wittenham and Little Wittenham. This is the village church in Little Wittenham, with an old raised graveyard within the church wall...
...and even nice stained glass inside! We've gone back after Marcus bought his new camera since he though it would be a good place to take pictures...
A ways farther along the road is Dorchester and it's Abbey. It's no longer a working abbey, but it's still a working local church, and it claims to have continious religious significance on that site since the 1200's or so...
The house you can see under the arch is called "The Thatched Cottage"...I swear, that's what it's sign says! Actually, there are a lot of thatched roofs in the smaller villages, and they look really cute when the trim is cut in it's scalloped pattern around the top. Marcus had taken this same picture in black and white for his photography class a few years ago, so he thought I'd like to see it...
Of course, Dorchester Abbey is quite large inside...and it was cool on a sunny day (ah...). Marcus told me that was why he was so confused when I warned him that it was going to be warm at Stephanie's wedding in Davis in July, since he'd never been inside a church that wasn't cool even on the hottest day outside...!
Here's a closer view of the impressive stained glass in the abbey. Quite intricate pieces, I think, but I'm always a sucker for stained glass! Just see my Hunchback promo to see the "stained glass" I made...
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