Hurley

Esta semana tem sido sempre de calor com noites de 28'. Tudo muito bonito nao fosse ter de trabalhar e nao ter aqui praia ao lado para um mergulho. Apesar disso tentamos aproveitar ao maximo com passeios ao final do dia e almocos piquenique no parque.

Um dos sitios novos por onde passamos chama-se Hurley, mesmo aqui ao lado do meu trabalho. Aldeia calma e que com casas que da vontade de morar la. A ilha no meio do rio, Hurley Lock, convida a churrascos e ao pe do rio tem tambem um complexo para campismo - http://www.hurleyriversidepark.co.uk/. Gostei muito do sitio e é sem duvida um passeio muito agradavel.

Hurley lies halfway between London and Oxford, being 55 miles from each by river. The river has always been an important part of the village’s history with records of a ford as early as the 6th century.
The historical importance of Hurley lies mainly in the fact that a monastery was founded here in 1086 by Geoffrey de Mandeville and incorporated parts of a previous parish church. The monastery was dissolved in 1536 but relics of the monastic buildings can still be seen incorporated in many of the private residences surrounding the small green adjacent to the church and also in the ancient The Olde Bell inn which dates from 1135 and was built as the monastic guest house.
The church is unusual in that it has neither aisles nor a tower, although a belfry turret was added later. It contains many Norman features and also tombs of the Lovelace family – Lords of the Manor after the Dissolution and the builders of Ladye Place Mansion in which the Whig peers met to invite William of Orange to become king. The mansion was demolished in 1837.