Alfred Heneage Cocks

No rain this morning and for some reason I was feeling a bit stir crazy yesterday so needed to get out today!  So we loaded Ted in the car and headed out to Turville (Vicar of Dibley Country) and walked from there.

It was only about 3.5 miles but through a great piece of Chiltern Countryside, the windmill in the picture was used in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  The Church in the picture is St Bartholomew's at  Fingest, with a really interesting tower and the bench and plaque we in Adams Wood which is owned by the Woodland Trust and you an obviously dedicate parts of it.

Matthew is currently updating a book, published by Alfred Heneage Cocks in 1897, about the Church Bells of Buckinghamshire.  Matt had recently found out Cocks was buried in Turville Churchyard so today we looked for the grave and found it!  We cleaned it as best we could and were very pleased to have found it as it was overgrown and on the perimeter of the churchyard.  We will return to do a proper job at some point.  

I have no idea what the 'no staring at the goats' really means but it did make us laugh and we did see goats eventually......we didn't stare!