The Priory Cottage Garden & Medieval Barn: New Discoveries at Woodspring Priory, January 31st...

The Priory Cottage Garden & Medieval Barn: New Discoveries at Woodspring Priory, January 31st...: "Today I decided to walk through Worlebury Woods where I recorded a visual diary as I wandered through the wood on route to SandBay. I find t..."

The Priory Cottage Garden & Medieval Barn: New Discoveries at Woodspring Priory, January 31st...

The Priory Cottage Garden & Medieval Barn: New Discoveries at Woodspring Priory, January 31st...: "Today I decided to walk through Worlebury Woods where I recorded a visual diary as I wandered through the wood on route to SandBay. I find t..."

New Discoveries at Woodspring Priory, January 31st 2011

Today I decided to walk through Worlebury Woods where I recorded a visual diary as I wandered through the wood on route to SandBay. I find the mobile video recorder brilliant for my reflective diary.Later I create DVD's and CD's as a means to store information and enrich my Family Tree.Friends and family enjoy my explorations of 'My Beautiful Somerset' where throughout the year I wander and roam recording and enjoying the countryside.Today after the walk thru the woods and discovering several iron age cutting tools I progress towards Kewstoke where I have a good hour's brisk walk along the beach at Sandbay collecting the odd jurasic shell --usually 'devil's claws'  ancient oyster shells found scattered along the shoreline.

I ascend to the top of the Sandpoint ridge and follow it towards the Woodspring Priory--I am drawn to this place like a magnet--the beauty and peace never fail me. Anyway today I make yet more discoveries as the photos will show. I explore the abandoned Priory cottage garden once the home of the caretaker  but now looking a little sad on such a cold grey day.I take loads of photos and also a small video. Eventually I clamber over a collapsed ancient wall and into a field where I have an amazing experience---a very beautiful and medieval barn once very much a working part of the Priory and still used today by the farmer---A very old, solid stone construction and huge oak timbers supporting the roof in a varity of arrangements--absolutely amazing----this listed barn is in the middle of nowhere but its magnificence reflects its majesty, its past history. I have a booklet all about the Priory which is full of history and facts including the Barn. As I left I am sure I saw a figure in the Priory window--it is suppose to be haunted--so maybe they like visitors. It costs £800 per week to stay in the residential part of the Priory and I have had the priviledge of looking inside on a previous visit when I bumped into the cleaners and a National Trust Volunteer. I now have a grand collection of photos and videos of my visits to the Priory---a magical place for me and others--steeped in history and once of enormous inportance --a place  that was the home to Augustian monks, once much bigger and grander and where  the bodies of the Knights who murdered Thomas a Becket were brought for a period of time. The Priory is dedicated to Thomas a Becket.