Close to Blaydon is the small town of Woodstock. The old town stocks in the centre of Woodstock have holes for five legsā¦.why?
Further along the road into Warwickshire we then stopped at Long Compton. The Lych Gate at St. Peter and St. Paul, Long Compton is quite unusual. According to a sign posted on the notice board beneath the lych gate:
"The parish lych gate dates from about 1600, when it was the end of a row of cottages. Most of these were demolished in the 1920s. The lych gate became first a cobblers and later an antiques shop in the middle of the last century.
It was re-roofed and restored by a past resident, Mr George Latham, and given to the Church as a memorial to him by his wife, Marion, on 12th November 1964. The room above the gate is loaned to the Compton District History Society."
The church itself is pretty impressive : it is believed that St. Augustine preached on this site in 597AD. The present building dates from the 13th century
Inside the Easter story was presented as a model on the Font - something I haven't seen since I was a child at Churchill Church in Worcestershitre.
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