The Village is owned by a lord. The whole Village as a preservation order on it. We have no shops except a small one in the post office. Yes the walls are dry stone.
The Village is owned by a lord. The whole Village as a preservation order on it. We have no shops except a small one in the post office. Yes the walls are dry stone.
Do you have more pics of the Village? Here in the new world, we lack the glorious preservation of ancient buildings and their history. I had a courtesy Aunt from Derbyshire who built drystone walls around our
rockeries. The local shale worked very well. The family home was sold after my mother's death, but the walls remain. They have lasted almost fifty years--in a very damp climate.
We have many Thatched cottages in the Village. Here are two. Dry walls are found all over England from Garden walls to Thousands of miles enclosing fields and farms. And last many hundreds of years of English weather. My Bungalow as 2 feet thick stone walls and is 350 years old and is by no means the eldest. Many Cottages in the Village have walls 3 feet thick.The Tower and fortified Mansion date from the Crusades 11 Century