Cotswolds Towns and Villages Tour
Landscape view of Long Compton This evening I am reprising a day tour using Moreton-in-Marsh (England) as a base, I visited a wide range of Cotswold villages, medieval churches and other sites all with a ten-mile radius of my hotel. Many of the village churches date from around the 12th century AD and doubled as refuges and community centres.. At the time the only religion was Roman Catholic which was replaced by Protestantism and the Anglican Church after around AD 1540. First was a landscape view of Long Compton followed by a visit to a Bronze Age (1800-1500 BC) standing stone at Rollrigh t. Brionze Age standing stone at Rollright. Deformed shape is due to persons in days past removing small pieces for memento purposes. Then to the village of Long Compton and its lychgate and church. Long Compton Lychgate Long Compton Parish Church Next to the even smaller village of Barton on the Heath and its church which may have origins in the first millennium. Barton on th...