Updates

Mind perhaps starting to cool down after the heated experience of visiting Wiltshire County England the last 2 weeks of June. Will fit immediate future posts about Wiltshire into broader discussions (like this post!). I believe I’ll have no quarrels about returning to the O_k Barn just outside Marlborough for the next visit. Relatively cheap; very convenient to all locations (Marlborough, Fyfield Down, Avebury, The Barge, West Woods, Savernake, etc.). Will have more to say about the comparison between the O_k Barn and Baker Bloch’s own visit to Wilsthire in 2010, staying at another farm house (Temple Farm). The King and Queen of Temple Farm have some interesting ties to the people who rent the O_k Barn, seemingly.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66525

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/marlboroughheadlines/8367979.New_theft_brings_Marlborough_tree_firm_to_a_halt/

http://www.marlboroughcollege.org/about-us/college-history/the-mound/

William Morris (educated at Marlborough College):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Nowhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wood_Beyond_the_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_at_the_World%27s_End

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Marlborough description from a children’s book author’s blog:

Walking up hills in the rain through history day 4

Wansdyke and Shaw village from same:

Walking uphill through thistles through along the Wansdyke day 5

William Golding (who lived in Marlborough and Wilsthire):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding

William Golding’s friend James Lovelock, best known for his Gaia hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock