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A Bookshop is Born: youthful journey to an old industrial village, climate conferences, anxiety, and the birth of a bookshop…

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Welcome. I’m Luke Sherlock, writer and bookshop owner with a boundless enthusiasm for landscape, art and heritage. There’s little I enjoy more than throwing on a backpack, heading off down some unknown footpath and pausing to explore a hushed, ancient church along the way. My mission is to share these journeys so we can better know, value and care for our historic landmarks and the landscapes they sit within, whilst hopefully inspiring others to find some meaning through their own discoveries…

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The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. A walk to the dawn of English history at the 7th century chapel founded by St Cedd.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust (@pilgrimtrust) provide free access to a pilgrim route network that currently has over 250 routes across Britain with maps, photos and info. One of those routes is the “Glastonbury Waterway” from Bath to Glast
Into the tangled Holloway. A lonesome woodland track. This rough hewn sunken lane, where excoriated earth is ruffled by foot and hoof and flow. Centuries of toil, up and down, now resting sleepily whilst the motorways drone. A reminder of how the jou
• Ickleton, Cambridgeshire • An evocative scene and an insight into the medieval imagination. Here we see St Michael weighing the souls of the dead in a carved 15th century (I presume) bench end at St Mary Magdalene, Ickleton, Cambridgeshi
• Westminster Abbey • Weepers on the tomb of Edward III, whose long reign straddled the Black Death and established England as a major military power. We know there were once 12 of these bronze weepers, for all of his 12 children. Only 6