Aldbury - Picturesque English village virtual walk
Today's virtual walk is in Aldbury. Aldbury is a village retaining several archetypal historic features. In the centre is a green pond; close by stand stocks and whipping-post, in excellent preservation, a primary school and the Church of Saint John the Baptist. In the days of Edward the Confessor the single manor (recorded as Aldeberie in the 1086 Domesday Book) was held by Alwin, the king's thegn. The Valiant Trooper has served as an alehouse for several centuries, the first traceable evidence dates back to 1752.
The ascent of the wooded slope towards the Bridgewater Monument is one of the steepest ascents crowned by a ridge with one of the five highest elevations in Hertfordshire.[4] Monuments in the church prove and witness the importance of certain manorial families including the family of Sir Ralph Verney, 1546, who has the northern Verney chapel in the church and the similarly landed family of Thomas Hyde, 1570, and George his son 1580.[3] Aldbury was the home of Sir Guy de Gravade, known as the Wizard of Aldbury, who was reputed to be able to turn base metals into gold.[5]
To the northwest of Aldbury, Aldbury Nowers forms part of the Chiltern escarpment and is traversed by The Ridgeway, an ancient track, and by two sections of Grim's Ditch, a linear earthwork thought to date from the Iron Age.
Film:
1947: Jassy (the last production by Gainsborough Pictures)
1967: The Dirty Dozen (the scene at the beginning of the training exercise)[22]
1969: Crossplot (last scene)
1979: The Shillingbury Blowers (film) starring Trevor Howard, Diane Keen
1999: Parting Shots A movie directed by Michael Winner, starring Chris Rea and Felicity Kendal. Various scenes were shot opposite The Greyhound pub next to the village pond.
2004: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the Greyhound pub (including a scene involving fox hunting cut from the cinema release but on DVD)[citation needed]
Television:
1967: The Avengers, two episodes of the sixties TV series, episode Dead Man's Treasure town renamed Swingingdale original air date 21 October 1967 (UK). And the complete episode Murdersville renamed Little Storping In-The-Swuff original air date 11 November 1967 (UK)
Inspector Morse, the TV detective series, the pub
Shillingbury Tales series, filmed in 1980. The church, churchyard/graveyard and path to the primary school as well as the Greyhound pub also featured in a Dave Allen sketch (the race to the graveyard between two funeral parties)
Marchlands
Midsomer Murders episodes Written in Blood and Murder of Innocence
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