Isn't it amazing how reliant we have become with technology. We have been staying in Quidhampton about 3 miles outside of Salisbury, in what was the old garage block, now converted to a lovely B&B, but we had almost no wifi. I had taken 57 photos with my phone, and could not load them to the google "cloud" as I don't have a data plan on the phone.
So I have some catching up to do.
Before we left our B&B, I had a quick look back on my Ancestry, (when we got a connection) to make sure I didn't miss anything before we left Salisbury.
Lucky I did because I had some of my ancestors in the wrong generation, as you do, I guess. Old William was the 29th great grandfather, not the 25th. William Longspee however was my 23rd great grandfather, and he lived in Salisbury Castle. Only problem we didn't find Salisbury Castle. So a bit more googling, to find it was in fact the ruins at Old Sarum. He didn't look after that building very well!
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| The ruins of the Castle |
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| The ruins of the cathedral |
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| This fascinates me, wonder why the Asian countries don't follow our traditions |
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| The view to Salisbury and the Cathedral |
And an update from yesterday's visit to Wilton House, check out some of the antiques inside the house. I took these photos from a video which was running. The contents of the house must be worth millions!
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| A Ferrari, just one of the cars on display |
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| From the video |
Before we visited Stonehenge, we drove through Durnford, both Great Durnford and Little Durnford the town with the same name as my family.
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| Bridge over the River Avon, this is a very old area near Old Sarum |
Before we left Salisbury we had a great meal in one of the local pubs.
When we left we drove in a south western route from Salisbury in order to see the villages where my Durnford grandparents lived. A couple of churches and old market towns were first on the agenda, in the rain.
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| The Anglican Church Fordingbridge |
The first was Fordingbridge where my gg grandfather was born, then to Ringwood it was pouring rain, unfortunately.
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| Anglican Church Ringwood |
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| Streets of Ringwood and ancient market town. |
We drove to Poole on the coast. It has a massive harbour, and the ferries leave here for Guernsey and France. Three hours to Guernsey so no trip for us, but even if we have planned one, the conditions on the harbour would have been enough to cause a cancellation. The wind was gale force, the seas rough, and it was cold. We found a park (amazing) and then walked into the Poole Pottery for a coffee and to get warm. Enjoyed the Dorset apple cake that they served. I didn't know they made pottery there, but now the factory has moved to Staffordshire, and the building sells clothing and sort of overflow lines. The pottery was very expensive and quite bold colours.
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| How about one of these, they are teapots! |
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| Poole pottery a small piece was around 40 pounds |
Poole was also the place that Sam Durnford left to go fishing in Newfoundland, Canada. My Durnford family contacts over the seas, have trouble finding information about Sam, so I thought that while we were here I would see if there was anything I could find. We went to the History Centre inside the Museum.
There was nothing relating to Samuel but there were 5 large packets of Durnford information, wills etc, that would have taken quite a long time to read. Perhaps someone else in the family will be able to source that.
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| It was blowing a gale. |
We then drove to the ferry to go to Swanage. This time we certainly took several scenic routes, but ended up in some of the better parts of Poole, million dollar houses with million dollar views.
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| We actually had planned to see the steam trains but parking was again a problem |
Have a look, the beaches here are of sand, and the gale force winds were blowing the sand over the road.
The ferry took us back, it is supported by massive chains and you don't feel like you are even on the water.
Then we drove in a circular route to Beaulieu (bue-lee).
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