Country Life

Another half-term hols day, another chance to catch up with one of my teaching friends. And another lovely, long, lazy lunch, with a large serving of nattering on the side! (Baked camembert with crusty bread and cherry chutney today, mmm....)

Chew Magna is one of my favourite villages in the area. The village's importance can be traced back to Saxon times, and it was a thriving woollen centre in the Middle Ages. At the far end of the high street (in the centre of the shot), you can see a Grade II listed building dating from the late 15th Century, and possibly one of the most important buildings in Somerset. This building was originally a ‘Church Ale House’, but is known now as the ‘Old Schoolroom’, as it was used as a school from the 17th Century. Nowadays it is used as the Village Hall.

Today Chew Magna is a thriving village, and in 2011 was voted “The Best Village in Britain”, in a Sunday Times survey. I would certainly love to live here, if only I could afford to!

(Not a great photo, bit of a blip and run!)