Newlands Corner to St Martha's Church

A beautiful walk with Carol today. Found a walk on AllTrails going from Newlands Corner to St Martha’s Church.

St Martha’s Church is also known as St Martha’s church-on-the-hill. And it really does sit on a hill, no access roads just trails through the woods up to where the church sits. It has Holy Communion or Matins every other week and the graveyard is still in use with evidence of a fresh internment.

Our first visit to Newlands Corner and we were blown away by the views. It was a beautiful day, not too hot, with a little breeze. When you get to a place like this you realise just how beautiful England, and the United Kingdom can be, and how privileged we are to live here.

View from the car park

Down the initial slope and away across the fields.

Through some pretty narrow footpaths.

After what seemed a long climb through woods with a lot of sandy soil this was the fantastic view of the church.

In some ways it’s beautiful yet in other ways it’s somewhat sad and melancholic, thinking about how much Christianity has played in creating our culture and yet we are now in a season where our culture and Christianity is derided and put down. How much the CofE has wasted 😥

New life we thought, alas it was just a jar of flowers nestled between the fork of a dead branch.

Heading back down we came across an old WW2 pillbox.

The combine harvester gives an indication of the scale of the scene.

Down more footpaths and rolling wheat fields.