More Quaint Little Villages

8/17/2015

*Warning* Another picture heavy post!
On one afternoon, in late July, my buddy from New Orleans and I sat off to explore some of the small villages around us. We walked around Kirkoswald 1st. This is the same village I visited for Market days and blogged about HERE. It was raining that visit too.

Armed with information...

Much better directions than I could give.

And it looks grey because of the approaching rain.

Starting off in the Center of the village, we went to look at the local church, but I misunderstood the directions (because someone told me to go the wrong way...) and we ended up in someones yard!

Err, this doesn't really look like a church? I think we made a wrong turn and ended up in someone private yard. Opps!

Nice hedge, though.

Backs away slowly as we hear dogs barking..

OH! It's OVER THERE! Where the sign is, lol.

Its very quite and serene along the trail to the church.

It was about to rain.

It started to rain..

Don't these pictures look better in black and white? It was raining and dark, so to edit them enough to see they look "too bright". #Fail

The Church well.

Going back to town center.

The bridge over the Raven.

Looking down at the Raven.

And the Raven Bridge store..

Found a lovely flower lying on the sidewalk..

Back the way we came in.

Back to the town center and the pubs..

Now just randomly walking around in the light rain. That explains why we both had colds later!

Lots of pretty stone buildings and houses.

Another door.

Spotted in a garden. :D

SUPER sized Hosta.

Regrouping and off we go again.

Now on to Will's Pool.

Lazenby (pronounced Laz-on-bee) was a prehistoric town. It's name is thought to come from a more recent Norse word, "Leisingbi" meaning the village of the freedman or a man called Leising, around 900 AD. Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Normans all had influence over the village and its development. (From the leaflet shown in photo.)