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| Wych Elm Lane, Woolmer Green |
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I was visiting Woolmer Green recently and on passing under the railway line I could see Wych Elm Lane climbing the hill. I was immediately reminded of G. K. Chesterton's poem:
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire,
And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire;
A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.
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| On Mardley Heath |
At the same time I visited the nearby Mardley Heath Nature Reserve - and took a lot of pictures of what is a combination of ancient woodland (with plenty of bluebells) and a sand/gravel pit which has been recovered by nature. [Pictures]
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