The parish church of St Denis in the village of Morton in Nottinghamshire dates from 1756. The church has a nave and chancel with a small apse. There is a west tower with four stages and a vestry on the north side of the church.
The church is built from brick with a stone dressing.
Project deblogification continues, the Typewriters blog has now had it's last update. Instead, fans of retro office technology such as typewriters, calculators and dialphones can get their fix at my dedicated website. I have three more blogs to retire and transfer to the website though there will probably be a bit of a gap before the next retirement.
The town of Woburn Sands is near Milton Keynes and is also on the county's border with Bedfordshire. The name is derived from nearby Woburn in Bedfordshire and local sandy soil in the area. This name is a fairly recent change though as the original name of the village was Hogsty End but by Victorian times the name was considered inappropriate!
Settlement has been in the area since the Iron Age at least, remains of a fort from about 500BC having been found nearby. The settlement grew very slowly, and was not mentioned in the Domesday Book. For most of Woburn Sands' history the mining of Fullers earth was the major industry in the area.
Woburn Sands (or rather Hogsty End) was a hamlet of nearby Wavendon and became a separate parish in 1867. It became a town in the early 1970s. The church of St Michael is over the county border in the area known as Aspley Heath and was consecreted in 1868. Woburn Sands railway station was opened in 1846.
For this week's trip, and for the third week in a row, i headed off down to Buckinghamshire. This time i went somewhere new, the rather lovely village of Great Missenden. This is a jolly place full of nice looking (and no doubt very expensive) houses and cottages as well as a rather fine church. You can see my photos here.
