Random encounters with the unusual

The Blowing Stone is a sarsen stone that resides outside Blowing Stone Cottages, at the base of Blowingstone Hill, just to the south of the ...

During a recent visit to London I happened across Berkeley Square in Mayfair, which during the Victorian era was believed to be home to the ...

As a resident of Wiltshire I was recently interested to learn that local people have in the past been called “Moonrakers”, a term that can b...

Knowlton is a hamlet in Dorset, on the B3078, which is home to a ruinous 12th century Norman church. What makes the church remarkable is not...

Weird Wessex: A Tourist Guide to 100 Strange and Unusual Sights is a journey across the English counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset, S...

Here is a local legend which comes from near Verwood in Dorset.  Just off of the B3081 Verwood Road, near the hamlet of Woodlands, an old ho...

On the outside of Durham Cathedral is a sculpted panel which depicts a cow, a milkmaid and a man in monk-like robes. At first glance this se...