Huntingdonshire Day is celebrated on 25th April, the birthday of Oliver Cromwell. In celebration, we present our Seven Wonders of Huntingdonshire. Huntingdonshire is roughly rhomboid in shape, centred on Huntingdon, and the meeting of the Great North Road (A1) and the route from the east … Continue reading
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Warwickshire Day: In Search of Warwickshire
Warwickshire Day is celebrated each 23rd April, the traditional birthday of Shakespeare. It also seems appropriate that the county at the centre of England celebrates its county day on St George’s Day. In celebration, with H. V. Morton as our guide, we go In Search … Continue reading
23 April 2025
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Cumbria Capers !
Of all the local government ‘counties’ created in 1974, is any more disliked than ‘Cumbria‘? The former Cumbria County Council did all it could to destroy the historic identities of Cumberland, Westmorland, the Furness area of Lancashire and and the Sedbergh area of Yorkshire. Our … Continue reading