#ramsbury

[chronivore]

Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), Two Young Women Kissing, The Ramsbury Manor Foundation, Ramsbury.

[mertyatom]

In 1906 the Automobile Association erected the first road sign to assist the new breed of motorist taking to the UK's roads. Many were removed during WW2 but some still survive insitu - this example from sometime between 1912 and 1920, will be found in the village of Ramsbury (AA&MU - Automobile Association and Motor Union) #aa #automobileassociation #roadsign #ramsbury (at The Bell at Ramsbury) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBqpiKpngqc/?igshid=1ltulvsn3a7b6

[bluedragonelf]

Enjoying a pint of Ramsbury's Full English in the beer 🍺 garden. #ramsbury #pub #thebell #wiltshire #ramsburypub #ramsburybeer #beer #ale #pint #sunshine #glass #amberale #fullenglish #ramsburyfullenglish @bell_ramsbury @ramsbury_distillery #ramsburybrewery #igerswiltshire (at The Bell at Ramsbury) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmEFa6GDKMv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1irw209wei0dc

[eatingoutwithwadeandrock]

We are starting 2016 with breakfast at Café Bella. Café Bella is attached to The Bell at Ramsbury where we had dinner back in October last year – see Bell Review. We enjoyed dinner and we arrive with high hopes for breakfast.

Café Bella is cosy, friendly and welcoming – just what you need on a wet winter morning. The menu features locally sourced, free range and organic produce. We order coffee – cappuccino for me and americano for Rock. I’m in the mood for a full English – so that is what I order. Rock, always more restrained, asks for the free range bacon & egg muffin.

The coffee is from the Armadillo Coffee Company – slogan ‘Life’s too short to drink bad coffee’. It arrives quickly and it is definitely not bad coffee. Before long breakfast arrives too. At most places the full English breakfast is designed to suit truckers, farmers and builders – but not here. This full English is more suited to foodies – delicate, artistic, beautifully prepared and featuring great produce like Stornaway black pudding. I love it!

Rock’s bacon & egg muffin is equally fine and we’ve found another chef who knows how to perfectly poach eggs. This is a great start to 2016 and an early contender for best breakfast!

Breakfast@Cafe Bella,Ramsbury @thebellramsbury @VictoriaArabica @CharlieBarleys @gbchefs We are starting 2016 with breakfast at Café Bella. Café Bella is attached to The Bell…

[downsideabbeylibrary]

St Alfwold of Sherborne

The 25 March is the feast of St Alfwold of Sherborne (d.1058), monk of Winchester and Bishop of Sherborne in Dorset. Remarkably, the great Anglo-Norman chronicler, William of Malmesbury recorded various details about St Alfwold, derived from a priest in the diocese who had actually known the saint. Malmesbury noted that St Alfwold practiced habitual abstinence at a time when self-indulgence was commonplace; he used wooden plates and bowls at table, rather than the precious vessels favoured by most bishops; St Alfwold was specially devoted to St Swithun of Winchester whose image he set up in the church at Sherborne, and to St Cuthbert, whose shrine in the north he had repeatedly visited and whose antiphon he often repeated. But despite his humility, St Alfwold was a firm man; he quarrelled at least once with Godwin, Earl of Wessex, who was smitten with a sudden illness and who was said to have recovered only at the saint’s pardon. After St Alfwold’s death, the sees of Sherborne and Ramsbury were united in 1070 to become the see of Salisbury.  

[kingsburyhouse]

Leonie Door Millicent Hats, Ramsbury Wiltshire.

[tomrealism-blog]

#ramsbury #gold #realaletrail #wiltshire