Yey! Finally a decent picture of my valley.

[DanaC]

I've been trying on and off for the last year or so to try and find a picture online that shows what my home looks like. Usually they're too small, in grainy black and white, the photgrapher's stood at the bottom of a ditch or it's too far down the valley.

But har! I have finally found one that shows exactly what it looks like in the valley where I walk my dog, most days. My village is at the top of the hill to the right of this picture and this is the path I walk my dog along and the cut through I use to get down to the hamlet of Stump Cross.)

(hope this link works. No the lady in the picture is not me. I don't know who she is, but if I saw her from the front, maybe I would recognise her. She may or may not be a local).

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/...den_valley.jpg


Oooooh. There's a page of pictures here of my village!

http://www.calderfind.co.uk/homeview....htm~mainFrame


That is Northowram. 1st picture on the left and first picture on the right both show the entrance to "Upper Lane". A little way down that lane is my house, yey

Second pic down on the right: The long building furthest away, facing towards you, is the village pub, The Shoulder of Mutton. Opposite that pub to the left is a little snicket which joins the two lanes and gives access to the little row of cottages where I live

The village has had constant occupation for well over a thousand years and is mentioned in Domesday (1086) though the name has changed quite a lot since then:P

Domesday entry for Northowram:

Place name: Northowram, Yorkshire
Folio: 379v Great Domesday Book
Domesday place name: Ufrun
People mentioned: Church of Holy Trinity, York; Count Alan; Count W.; Countess Judith; Earnwine; Erneis de Buron; Geoffrey Alselin; Geoffrey de la Guerche; Gospatric; Hugh fitzBaldric, the sheriff; Ilbert de Lacy; King William as landholder; Osbern d'Arques; Ralph Paynel; Richard fitzErfast; Robert Malet; Robert, Count of Mortain; Roger de Bully; Thomas, Archbishop of York; William de Percy

Date 1086


"Roger de Bully" that's my favourite of the names. That's straight out of medieval England a'la Disney:P