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Morgan wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 6:46 pm OH! Upper and Lower Slaughter, I know them from British Murder mysteries I read and watch. I never looked them up- I supposed I presumed they were fictional names. Hope you hear some singing in Wales! Safe journeys!

Unfortunately I just dipped my toe into Wales.
Would have liked to hear some welsh singing.

Second stop (Actually just a drive past) was the Royal Crescent.

Just turned over 1000km so far.

I think we are up to 28 May?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset

The caves of the Mendip Hills were settled during the Palaeolithic period, and contain extensive archaeological sites such as those at Cheddar Gorge. Bones from Gough's Cave have been dated to 12,000 BCE, and a complete skeleton, known as Cheddar Man, dates from 7150 BCE. Examples of cave art have been found in Aveline's Hole. Some caves continued to be occupied until modern times, including Wookey Hole.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/som ... ry-1304777

There was no parking I could find in Chedder. The queue for of car park was nearly 1km on a hot day at Chedder Gorge with a long ticket queue as well.
Sorry, no parking hence no pictures.

Drove onto Wookey Hole and found parking ( someone pulled out infront of me so I grabbed the spot)

Oh the joys of a bank holiday weekend in the UK!

The last location with the festival and links to King Arthur is Glastonbury.

Thanks Jil.
Oh the joy of finding a park ANY day.

28 and 29 May I stayed at a place name like a name that could connected to a cowboy/ girl movie and a really good horse.

30 May
I missed out on a couple of places on the way down here lack of parking again.
I missed out on seeing the biggest steam engine at the
Kempton Steam Museum the home of the world's largest working triple-expansion steam engine known as 'The Sir William Prescott Engine' my fault that one I did not check opening days.
Well worth at
https://kemptonsteam.org

I am now at a place which began as an Anglo-Saxon village. The Jutes arrived in the area from the Isle of Wight in the 6th century and founded a settlement called Limentun. The Old English word tun means a farm or hamlet whilst limen is derived from the Ancient British word *lemanos meaning an elm tree.

Lymington

28 and 29 May I stayed at a place name like a name that could connected to a cowboy/ girl movie and a really good horse.

Well, When I think of a really good horse, what wouldn't come to mind but a "Morgan". (Not that I am aware that it fits the other clues.)

Sorry not a Morgan. But I do like the Morgan cars.

28 & 29th - could it be Weston-super-Mare

Spot on jil.

Tonight I will write up the log for the next few days.

30 May (a bit more)
My general travel area was in the area William the Conqueror who, after invading the south of England in 1066 and claiming the crown, began to assert his influence over the country.
It is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire.
* What area was it?

31 May
I took a ferry trip to an island but everything was all Wight and landed safely in a Newtown.
* Easy q what island?

Drove around the island and found fuel is very hard to find on the main ring road.

As a child I used to climb down ropes an collect coloured sands from the cliff face to put it in small glass lighthouses at this place.
* What place?

You had to have your wits about you if you did not want to get pricked by these.
* By what?
If I had been sailing within 64km of this place in the late 1880s you may have been able to talk to me.
* Who made that possible, and where?


A lady saint has a lighthouse named after her here.
* which lighthouse?

I then had a nice 1 hr train trip. This station is in a Street that is a haven for train buffs. ( well sort of)
* What village was I in?

Took the ferry over to Portsmouth for the next two nights.

30 May New Forest ?

I am told it is lovely area but I could not see it for all the trees.

Communications...is this Marconi ship-to-shore radio between Isle of Wight and a royal yacht? Or was that later?

I then had a nice 1 hr train trip. This station is in a Street that is a haven for train buffs. ( well sort of)
* What village was I in?

I'm guessing wildly that you were at Havenstreet.

The coloured sands come from Alum Bay. I did have some from a family holiday (many years ago!) but no idea what became of it. Bought in the gift shop not from dangling on ropes.

Lighthouse, Marconi, Havenstreet, Alum Bay all correct.

Are you sharp enough to get the missing one?

Isle of Wight ?