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Dist:0.4km<br/>The gnome sits on a sign saying "Welcome to my pond".
©Rob Farrow
Dist:0.4km<br/>From what I can find out, I think that this little chapel is dedicated to St.Michael & All Angels ... a similar comment applies as to this church [[110602]]
©Rob Farrow
Dist:0.4km<br/>The little village hall in Whelpley Hill obviously dates from the coronation ... but which one ? I think our current Queen Elizabeth II is most likely (1953) but it could be for George VI (1937)
©Rob Farrow
Dist:0.6km<br/>There is virtually nothing to see on the ground. The circular site is partly enclosed by a shallow ditch, marked by the hedgerow in this photo of the Western edge of the site. Further information here: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/541/whelpley_hill_camp.html.
©Tom Presland
Dist:0.7km<br/>This pub is just out of the main part of the village. This view is looking due North.
©Rob Farrow
Dist:0.8km<br/>Light plane taking off from the airstrip at Bovingdon. This is also a footpath!
©Tom Presland
Dist:0.9km<br/>Grove Farm, formerly called Grove, is a moated medieval manor house. It fell into disrepair and by the 18th century was being used as a barn. In the 1960s, in order to preserve the fabric of the building (including its fine Tudor roof), the building was turned back into a house, under the supervision of the Ministry of Works. The 15th century arched doorway (shown in the photograph) was repaired with stone from the original quarry in Tisbury, Wiltshire - over 100 miles away. The window in the West frontage is also 15th century. See also [[[2075945]]] and [[[2075976]]] [Permission to take this photograph and additional information was kindly provided by the Harman Family, current owners of Grove Farm.]
©Tom Presland
Dist:0.9km<br/>Parts of the moat (unusually a double moat) remain water-filled throughout the year. Late Iron Age pottery has been found associated with parts of the moat, but it is not at present possible to state when it was actually dug. See also [[[2075945]]] and [[[2075785]]] [Permission to take this photograph and additional information was kindly provided by the Harman Family, current owners of Grove Farm.
©Tom Presland
Dist:0.9km<br/>The West frontage of this moated medieval manor house. “The first seven feet of the wall are of faced flints from an earlier period and above that the wall is of much rougher construction made of bits and pieces of re-used stone, new flint and some brick.” [A Thousand Years on a Chiltern Farm, Tony Harman”] The roof is Tudor. See also [[[2075785]]] [Permission to take this photograph and additional information was kindly provided by the Harman Family, current owners of Grove Farm.]
©Tom Presland
Dist:1.0km<br/>Two Charolais cows from the Grove Farm herd.
©Tom Presland
Dist:1.0km south<br/>This all looks new. It is probably all to do with grain, but I would appreciate an explanation from one of our farming experts.
©Graham Horn
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Looking N.E. towards "The Larches". After sustained rain a stream sometimes appears here flowing N.E. towards Bottom Farm where it joins a more established (but very seasonally variable) stream. Streams are a bit of a rarity around here as the chalky soil usually absorbs rain like a sponge. [Edit June 2010] [Tom Presland added] "The stream is known as the 'Bourne Gutter'. According to local legend it only flows in times of national strife. It last flowed in 1992 during the first Gulf War having not flowed since 1945." [Rob Farrow added] I have seen this stream flowing much more recently than 1992. It tracks through countryside past Bottom Farm and Vale Farm and appears most years after heavy rain in the autumn - it can be clearly seen from the "new" A41 dual carriageway when travelling westwards - perhaps it was warning of the looming financial crisis at the end of the first decade of the 2000s !
©Rob Farrow
Dist:1.0km north<br/>White Hill rises to the left of this image. This meadow floods in wet weather, sometimes turning into a substantial pool, which often remains under water for weeks.
©Rob Farrow
Dist:1.0km south<br/>At the cross roads of a bridleway and a footpath and between the farm buildings to the right and the farm cottages to the left.
©Graham Horn
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Where Grove Farm is marked on the map there are several buildings. This cottage is off a track up to Fox Meadow Kennels & Cattery. Grove Farm itself achieved brief fame in the 70s as it was featured in a TV series entitled "Seventy Summers" about the farmer and his 70 years on that farm.
©Rob Farrow

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