This is the next parish south from Colwall and walks often take you there without knowing where the border is, except that it is mostly the one large Eastnor Castle estate with its C18th landscape and deer park rising onto the Malvern Hills - complete with deer
"The rich man in his castle" - Eastnor castle built by the Somers and Cocks families from 1810 with Robert Smirke as architect
"the poor man at his gate" - farmworkers cottages on the Eastnor Castle estate just visible through mist
Eastnor - the real castle
rems of Bransill Castle
theres that there castle again
Eastnor Castle from Ragged Stone Hill
Eastnor Church
Eastnor Church tower
Eastnor Church nave
Eastnor Church - north view
Gold Hill cottages
Hill End House, Eastnor
from Midsummer Hill...
misty day on the Malvern Hills
May Hill above the mist
another view
morning and not so misty
and in different weather again
Eastnor obelisk and Wales
obelisk from the main Malverns ridge
Eastnor obelisk: fog rising from the valleys
alert in Eastnor Deer park
obelisk from the deer park
summer Sunday
inscription on obelisk - one of 4
the sentinel - keeping my attention while the others creep off into the woods