Hawthorn grove

A small wood of hawthorns on the hill above Belstone on the edge of Dartmoor. How does it come to be there? 

Hawthorns the place for trysts. As in Tristan and Isolde: the plotters meet beneath one.  

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Pilgrimage and St Anne D'Auray, Brittany

 St Anne D'Auray a famous place of pilgrimage in Brittany (in fact I think it's on the French section of the Camino de Santiago). But most exciting for me was discovering proof that the town is twinned with Camborne....
A wet day.  Lovely roses.
Thousands and thousands of names on the War Memorial, so poignant in the rain.