We’ve done hardly any travelling around since Covid so I haven’t been doing much blogging about what I regard anyway as interesting places, and even when we did travel in May – to the County Durham area – I only blogged about one place. So here are a few photos of Wolsingham.

These north of England villages are just as scenic as the Cotswold villages, but I suppose their location counts against them as it’s not a handy journey from London and the south – as the Cotswolds area is. I can’t resist an old church though despite not being at all religious. Below is St Mary’s and St Stephen’s Church.

I think it’s the burial grounds around old churches that I’m really attracted by, strange I know. But some of the gravestones can be fascinating.

The church dates back to the 12th century but like so many it was rebuilt in Victorian times, the 1840s for this one. It still looks quite ancient to me though.

There’s a war memorial of course – there always is, sometimes they’re in the middle of nowhere, or so it seems.

You can read about the pretty wee town of Wolsingham here if you’re interested.

The next town along, Stanhope, has a similar church also with an interesting graveyard. This is St Thomas’s.

As you can see there was a lovely cherry tree blooming nearby.

You can read about Stanhope here.