Priddy Festival

Priddy is an out of the way village high up in the Mendip Hills. Every year they have a folk festival. This year I was able to attend. Here's some snaps -

Priddy church




Some stone figures on the church.







Nice flowers in the church porch.












The Mendips have a record of human history dating back half a million years. The landscape is full of ancient barrows and earthworks.

I went for a walk down Nine Barrows Lane.

This tree was at the top of the lane. It's an ash that's been damaged but has grown again.
There are lots of ash trees along the way.



The lane is deeply sunken and is thought to be very old. Probably the lane used by the barrow makers and many others before.

You can get good photos of vegetation next to the sky.

















Some barrows against the skyline.






I saw Grimspound Border morris. Wild men from Dartmoor.
Click here to see them dance.










The dance seems to involve them hitting each other with clubs quite a bit.
The clubs are ash staves.