Bartlow Hills, Cambridgeshire.......

A great place to stop for refreshments after (or before!) visiting 'the hills' ... The Three Hills public house, in Bartlow.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Post Office in Bartlow.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the path to Bartlow Hills, which runs alongside the church...... I wish my greenhouse was as roomy!

 

 

 

 

... and as you emerge from the tree-line narrow path... a mountain!....

 

 

Bartlow Hills were constructed between 90 and 120 AD and consist of two rows of barrows, four large hills being in one row and three small ones in the other.  The large hills are of uniform and regular construction, the largest, 45 feet high and 144 feet in diameter at the base, is almost the most important in England, being second only in size to lovely Silbury Hill near Marlborough.  The line of small hills is also regular in dimension and arrangement, although now almost obliterated. Nothing on the scale of these ancient burial mounds at Bartlow exist anywhere else in Western Europe, so this must have been the seat of a very powerful and rich British ruling family and being not a million miles away from Saffron Walden - I might even be descended from these posh folks.

 

 

...on the way up to the top....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did start counting, but I forgot how many steps!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 'photo' of how this site used to look .... :-)  before the railways flattened most of the area...

 

 

 

Pixie doesn't look concerned at all .. if I was her I'd be nervously saying "don't drop me!"...

 

 

Laburnum trees in bloom always remind me of my Father....

 

 

Along the road from Ashdon to Haverhill, such pretty scenery....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shudy Camps.....