Midhurst Footpath Companions
Walking in Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey.

Quiz Photos No. 21


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This sheep is having a quiet word with who?

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June and Linda have found a new friend - where did they find him?

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Answers to Quiz Photos No. 20

 

Petworth Park in the winter.  The majestic 700-acre park at Petworth is one of the finest surviving and unspoilt examples of an English landscape designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. Walking through the park, the landscape gives every impression of being totally natural but Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown transformed Petworth in the 1750s and early 1760s to the pastoral delight you see today. (Thank you National Trust).

These 2 cowboys are looking at a half scale model of a warning beacon. The original was on top of Tennysons Down on the Isle of Wight and was lit to warn of invasion threats, typically from the France and Spain.   When Spain’s King Phillip sailed a massive war fleet on England, the night was as bright as day, Macaulay wrote, the entire country lit by beacon fires at every visible point.

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