Sexey or What?

No it’s not my bad spelling, but the British use of village names, we thought we had seen it all when we were up in Oswestry and had visited a village called Knockin and there the local store was called (you guessed it) the Knockin Shop but more on this later.

Today we decided as the weather wasn’t sure what to do, Rain or Shine, that a nice trip to the Clark’s shopping village at Street just outside of Glastonbury would while away the hours. It was just a short hop down the M5 turning off at junction 23 and following the A39 across the Polden Hills and down into Street.

The views from either side of the Polden hills were tremendous; the hills run like a ridgeback for several miles giving you a huge vista across the Somerset levels.

After we’d shopped ourselves out at the retail centre, we decided that a return home via a different route could prove to be interesting. On our map we had spotted that the Meare Fish House (an English Heritage site nearby) could be an interesting location to find. So off we trundled down the narrow B roads to locate this house, well the place was so well hidden that by the time we’d reached the village of Meare according to the map we had passed the place a mile back without even seeing it.

Still we were finding the villages and the old churches in the area really interesting, even without stopping (as Kay had decided that today she wasn’t in the mood for tomb stoning.)

So on we went meandering down narrow roads just wide enough for a horse and cart through the pretty villages of Westhay, Wedmore and Blackford and there it was as just we entered Blackford…… Sexey’s Road with Hugh Sexey’s middle school and The Sexey’s Arms public house. I did try to see if the local shop was called The Sex shop but we were too busy navigating the roads to stop. You have to hand it to the ancient Brits when it comes to naming places, I wonder what else we’ll find on this green and pleasant Isle? I can’t wait to find the village of Feckin!!!!You could just imagine the comment of the local comedian.. ’you don’t want to stop in this Feckin village mate.’

We have visited a lot of the places locally when we had the caravan and have stayed at the Cheddar caravan sites visiting Wells cathedral, Wookey Hole, The Cheddar Gorge and Glastonbury but no doubt we will visit them again this time as we’ve promised ourselves that we will climb Glastonbury Tor and the Brent Knoll, so keep following our Blog.

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