A walk from Shoreditch to Cannon Street, tracing the lost Walbrook River. This shortest of central London’s lost rivers nonetheless gives the chance to see plenty of interesting history. Finding the Walbrook Today’s walk, like an earlier one along the path of the River Neckinger, traces one of London’s lost rivers. This time we will […]
A review of Petworth House in West Sussex. In which I get a little bit sunburned in the name of enjoying a splendid stately home and deer park. Petworth House, the ‘English Versailles’ Petworth House has variously been a medieval great house, Tudor manor house, and the ‘English Versailles’ (bit of a stretch). It’s also […]