> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest - 6 Jan 2023 - URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshalls-genius-loci-digest/ - Published: 2023-01-05T06:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2023-01-08T16:34:13.000Z - Description: There are a just a few places that I have visited that seem to be accessed via a time slip. - Author: Andy Marshall - Tags: genius loci digest, all saints benington, benington, lincolnshire, graffiti --- ## Welcome This digest is best viewed online. ### Welcome to the new home of my Genius Loci Digest. **I hope that you like the new digest - the format hasn't changed, but the site is more visual and moves seamlessly between content. All the previous memberships (Revue and Patreon) have been incorporated into this site which now houses the additional immersive content for members.** For those that are new here: thank you for subscribing. I'm an architectural photographer that travels around Britain in my camper van recording and interacting with special places that have a spirit about them. I share my experiences via this digest. This Digest is a protest and an antidote, and my photography is another way of telling. It says that these things matter, that they contribute to the quality of our lives, our wellbeing and our identity. It tells us that there are many nuanced layers to the past and to us, as human beings. In a fast changing world this digest focuses on slow time, refinement, relevancy, and ultimately continuity. ⚡️**[Read more about how the Genius Loci Digest came about.](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/my-genius-loci-digest-journey/)** ****⚡️ [Missed the last digest? 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So much has happened. Is it possible that it can still be the same day? The same self? This is not like working time, narrowed by pace and necessity. It is not like holiday time, subject to novelty and schedule, to accommodating the plans of others. This is extreme time, heavy time, Pilgrimage time. [Sonia Overall, Heavy Time ](http://www.soniaoverall.net/heavy-time/?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) --- **Observations** ## **Hiraeth** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/Screenshot-2023-01-04-at-13.05.27.png) Llandaff to Pennant Melangell *Warm thanks to subscriber Mick Green for telling me about Pennant Melangell.* **Last month I travelled from Llandaff Cathedral through the heart of Wales to a place of pilgrimage at St. Melangell's shrine. I had booked into the shepherd's hut at the shrine centre. My aim was to get a little time to work on a chapter of [my book](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/a-singular-point-of-light/).** --- There are a just a few places that I have visited that seem to be accessed via a time slip. Normally, it isn’t a sudden thing, but a transitional feeling whilst driving or walking towards a place. In the Langstrothdale valley, in the Yorkshire Dales, it occurs somewhere along the road to Hubberholme. There’s a sense of chronological delamination - a stripping back of time. On the road to Cooling, in the salt marshes of Kent, it is more like an evaporation of the present day. On my most recent journey to St. Melangell’s in North Wales, the time slip was more defined. It occurred at Llangynog on the turn into the single track road that took me deep into the fold of the Tanat valley. As soon as I turned into the road, and passed the church, there was a marked change in atmosphere. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-6.jpg) St. Melangell's in the Tanat Valley. Travelling along the lane to St. Melangells is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn. The landscape provides a correspondence with the transition of time - the valley bottoms out into flattened serenity, as the Berwyn hills rise like embattlements pitched against any sense of doubt as to the magic at play. When I arrive at St. Melangell’s, I’m welcomed by Christine and Karen. They tell me that it’s shooting season. The shots that ring out temporarily break through the sanctity of this place. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4463.jpeg) It was to be a hunting expedition in the C7th that helped define Pennant Melangell. Legend has it that Brochwel the Prince and his party were hunting hares, and came across a young girl in a copse, praying with a hare hidden in the folds of her clothes. The dogs would not approach and the horses were unsettled. It was the first human contact for Melangell who had lived in the copse for 15 years. She was an Irish princess who was estranged from her country. Brockwel, thought it a miracle and granted the girl sanctuary, giving her the land where she established a church and convent. Melangell became the patron saint of hares. Her shrine is one of the most evocative places that spring from the times of pilgrimage - it might have been ported from an apse in Rome. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4471.jpeg) It’s a story that stirs something deep in the human psyche: of compassion, of harmony with nature, and of sanctuary. I’m reminded of some words by Diane Kalen-Sukra. “Offering sanctuary is a revolutionary act; it expresses love, when others offer scorn or hate. It recognizes humanity, when others deny and seek to debase it. Sanctuary says ‘we’ rather than ‘I’. It is belonging—the building block of community.” I enter the shepherds hut at St. Melangell’s and make it my sanctuary. I hang my coat, and empty my bag. I place my books on the bedside table, my shoes at the end of the bed. I perch my radio on a shelf and my MacBook on the desk. I look inside the drawers and fidget with the heater. Settled, I lie on the bed and listen to the cackle of pheasant out along the valley. Then, with time on my hands, I sit at the desk and begin to write. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4394.jpeg) I’m writing again. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/dji_fly_20221207_163646_260_1670430965419_aeb.jpg) After a while working at the desk, I notice a book placed on the table to my left called “*A Welsh Childhood*” by Alice Thomas Ellis. A previous occupant of the hut has left a note inside. It reads: “*There is a word in Welsh, “Hiraeth” which is a life-long yearning for what is gone or out of reach. And in a place like this we have moments of consciousness when we realise that time passes and will never come again*.” There is Hiraeth here, but there’s also a comforting bend in the river of time that seems to slow things down. The church is rooted in generations of occupants that have each left their mark upon the furniture and walls; and, outside the church, we are reminded of a deeper time: three yew trees that are 2000 years old, surrounded by an oval Bronze Age boundary and a slip of land called the sanctuary. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-5-1.jpg) I’m grateful for places like this, and grateful to Melangell and her story, to Christine and Karen and Mick (who showed me the way), and to the unknown occupant that took the time to share the spirit of this place. They unwittingly gave me sanctuary - a place to write. I’d like to leave another word for this place: a Gaelic word: Caol Áit - a thin place - where the membrane between heaven and earth is so thin that you could almost touch it. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/71C98B60-9F47-4999-93D2-C3F25337D904.jpeg) Me,the Shepherd's Hut and St. Melangell's church --- **Can You Help?** It takes a day a week to produce this digest. With your support, I’m able to keep this digest free and public facing. Support this digest and get access to a world of immersive content. 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It is cupped by the Berwyn Mountains. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-2.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-8.jpg) > Up and up we went, the road, the car and I, entering a lovely if desolate world of rocks and rivers, tough mountain heather and gorse, with the sun piercing a hole in the gathered clouds like a peeping tom at a keyhole. Bunches of snow began to appear at the side of the single track road. Descents and chasms came into view at every yard; the world rolled away from beneath my feet. Leslie Thomas on the Berwyn Mountains in [*The Hidden Places of Britain*. ](https://www.fantasticfiction.com/t/leslie-thomas/hidden-places-of-britain.htm?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-16.jpg) ### St. Melangell The church is divinely set within the landscape in an oval bronze age boundary. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-2.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-14.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4630-1.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-7-2.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-13.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4624.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/2ADA1703-0D25-4A3F-B0D4-F71DF0D69AE0.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4634-1.jpeg) ### Interior The shrine lies beyond the medieval rood screen. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4464.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4466.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4476.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4477.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4478.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4470.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4473.jpeg) The shrine is Romanesque and has been re-built from fragments found about the church. To the side of the shrine is a C14th effigy - thought to be that of St. Melangell (with hares beneath her arms) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4479-1.jpeg) Behind the shrine is an apse that is thought to hold her original gravestone. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4475.jpeg) ### The Yew Trees Pennant Melangell is a rare place indeed - for it has a number of yew trees that are over 2000 years old. Each has its own personality, each branch carries the weight of time, their roots are rooted in pre-history. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4492.jpeg) When walking to the yew tree to the north west of the churchyard - there is a glimpse of an impish figure, within the folds of the tree. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4495.jpeg) There are shapes within the flux of growth that morph into faces and animals befitting of a bestiary. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4497.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4498.jpeg) ### Grafitti On one of the gravestones in the churchyard are shoe outlines. I've come across these all over the land in various places - mostly on lead roofs. People making their mark in time...hiraeth ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4434-1.jpeg) \[Below\] Foot graffiti at Beonna, All Saints' Church in Benington, Lincolnshire. I love the ones with little patches on them..a kind of humility that is rare. In the caves at Lascaux they recorded their hands too - millenia of mark making. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/Beonna-2.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/CCT-Beonna128.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/CCT-Beonna133.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/CCT-Beonna140.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/CCT-Beonna141.jpg) This is me photographing the roof at Benington - the graffiti was on the lead roof of the tower. My photography is my mark making. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/A17ED73FCFA1AC0917EFE06A9ECC7424.jpeg) **Vanlife** **It was more shepherd's-hut-life than vanlife at Pennant Melangell.** The hut comes with the Beaudy Bach - an old cow shed that harbours all the mod cons. But, with the van nearby, I made a couple of meals on the hob, because of familiarity. I do love a van and a cabin combo... ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4629.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4397.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4425.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4393.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4396.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4421-1.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4412.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4561.jpeg) --- On My Coffee Table ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_5009-1.jpeg) **This book was in the shepherd's hut at Pennant Melangell.** It has a lovely chapter on the Berwyn Mountains and the shrine. Leslie Thomas finds his way into a local hostelry and listens to the stories being told. He tells the story relayed by one of the locals who *" remembered a boy from Llangynog who was harrowing a field at the foot of the mountains. When the middle of the day arrived he let the horses graze and sat down himself to rest. Along came the meddling minister who asked why he was lazing about when he should be working.'* *"But the horses have to rest," explained the lad.* *"There's nothing for me to do."* *"Nonsense, boy," reproved the minister. "Just because the horses need a rest it doesn't mean you have to slack. You're a strong boy. Pull the harrow along yourself."* *The following Sunday the lad's father appeared at chapel with a bag of potatoes which he handed to the surprised minister who asked what they were for. "For you to peel," said the man. "Give you something to do while we're praying."* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_5010.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_5011.jpeg) From the Charo's ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4819-1.jpeg) --- Bookmarked [The elusive cave writing of Lascaux | The PastWhen Jean-Luc Champerret explored the Lascaux caves soon after their rediscovery, he saw not paintings but ancient writing. With the publication of his extr ...![](https://i0.wp.com/the-past.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-The-Past-Test-Favicons1.1.png?fit=192%2C192&ssl=1)The PastMinerva Magazine![](https://the-past.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/post-1_image0-49.jpg)](https://the-past.com/feature/the-elusive-cave-writing-of-lascaux/?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [The Guardian view on the death of the Hardy Tree: a legend uprooted | EditorialEditorial: An ash surrounded by gravestones in an ancient churchyard reveals humanity’s urge to tell its own stories through trees![](https://static.guim.co.uk/images/favicon-32x32.ico)The GuardianEditorial![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8753a631fed5462979f4a2d6a882c16271dfea16/0_0_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=43e61b4e692867940bb8b4e229531cdd)](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/29/the-guardian-view-on-the-death-of-the-hardy-tree-a-legend-uprooted?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther&utm%5Fsource=pocket%5Freader) --- Film and Sound --- From the Twittersphere > Part way through an art project involving Wells Cathedral [#architecture](https://twitter.com/hashtag/architecture?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [#photography](https://twitter.com/hashtag/photography?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [pic.twitter.com/HIFZk4k9WJ](https://t.co/HIFZk4k9WJ?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) > > — Andy Marshall 📸 (@fotofacade) [December 21, 2017](https://twitter.com/fotofacade/status/943835419959091200?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) > Kitchen table Wells time lapse - Art project is onto the next stage. The concept has legs. Will be seeking ways to attach individual images to a mount next [#architecture](https://twitter.com/hashtag/architecture?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [#photography](https://twitter.com/hashtag/photography?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [#wells](https://twitter.com/hashtag/wells?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [#cathedral](https://twitter.com/hashtag/cathedral?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [#art](https://twitter.com/hashtag/art?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) [pic.twitter.com/dfWLUSBN3D](https://t.co/dfWLUSBN3D?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) > > — Andy Marshall 📸 (@fotofacade) [December 23, 2017](https://twitter.com/fotofacade/status/944634782482395136?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) > One for [#throwbackthursday](https://twitter.com/hashtag/throwbackthursday?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co): a few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. [pic.twitter.com/qMKnJ9yuhy](https://t.co/qMKnJ9yuhy?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) > > — Andy Marshall 📸 (@fotofacade) [November 3, 2022](https://twitter.com/fotofacade/status/1588067201046773760?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=digest.andymarshall.co) --- **Treasure Hoard Gazetteer** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/Screenshot_2022-10-04_at_11.02.33.png) Screenshot of Treasure Hoard Gazetteer ****Andy Marshall’s Treasure Hoard Gazetteer Map** My Treasure Hoard Map is open to all. It is an evolving enterprise and I’ll be adding more entries as time passes. 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You can check out the growing VR content here (it can be viewed on any device and also on VR goggles) [virtual reality - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestAlmost as good as being there...![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/Breamore-Hi-Res-Aerial-3-1.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/virtual-reality/) ### Follow Me Live ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_7872.jpeg) **Heads Up** \- I'm heading out into Warwickshire next week and members can follow my journey exclusively, live on Polarsteps. I'll be photographing the magnificent Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's, Warwick and sharing my journey with you. **How do I join in?** I'll send members a link via email when the time comes. In the meantime here's all my previous travels on Polarsteps. Click on the box below to see them all. [PolarstepsPolarsteps is the personal travel log in your pocket.![](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/polarsteps/assets/apple-touch-icon-2e8b43f9b005a27a641e.png)Polarsteps![](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/polarsteps/assets/index-og-image-dfea47e4852ce159017c.jpg)](https://www.polarsteps.com/Andymarshall?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) --- **Twitter Circle** [Click here to see all Twitter Circle Posts ](https://twitter.com/search?f=live&q=%23patinamembers&src=typed%5Fquery&utm%5Fcampaign=Genius%20Loci%20Digest&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fsource=Revue%20newsletter)\- choose the ‘latest’ tab. Are you a member and not in the Twitter Circle? Send me your handle and I’ll add you to it. 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Check out the yew trees on the boundary (which is Bronze Age) - they are over 2000![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/St.-Melangell-Web-secondary-2-1.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/aerial-video-of-st-melangell/) ### New Posts [Be there: the Ceiling of Kings at St. Mary, Beverley in glorious VRIt’s a remarkable site within the context of the choir stalls![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/snapshot.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/be-there-the-kings/) [A Year in the Life: 3rd January 2022Whilst walking along the drover’s lane I think about the energy invested in these walls over the countless years. Some of them have medieval cores. Each wall is laid by hands that stretch across generations.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_8771.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/a-year-in-the-life-of/) [A Year in the Life: 5th January 2022I decide to chance it. There’s an inch of snow. I take the tripod off the side shelf of the van and fix my camera to it. I open the side door and lose my footing as I step out of the van.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_8859.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/a-year-in-the-life-5th-january-2022/) [My 2022 DJI Fly App ReportI flew for 82km and photographed 32 towns and cities.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_5850.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/my-2022-dji-fly-app-report/) **From the Archives** [Aerial Video of St. Mary’s church, Breamore, HampshireSt. Mary Breamore - video![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/Breamore-Hi-Res-Aerial-1-1.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/aerial-video-of-st-marys-church-breamore-hampshire/) **Keyword of the Week** **Church Crawling** [churchcrawling - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestTreasured places, layered in history![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/DJI_0453.JPG)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/churchcrawling/) ## Quick Access ****Notes for New Members:** [See here](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/new-members-useful-information/) ### **How this Digest came about:** [My Genius Loci Digest JourneyIn the late 1990’s I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/chelfie_baglans-1-2.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/my-genius-loci-digest-journey/) ### Treasure Hoard Index: [🟦 The Treasure Hoard Index“I share them with the gratitude that, through a strange quirk of career, I’ve had a certain freedom to be able to seek them out and photograph them.”![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/IMG_7865.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/the-treasure-hoard-index/) ### Free Downloads: [free stuff - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestFree downloads for members only![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/Green-Man-Collage-1.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/free-stuff/) ### The Comperandum: [comperandum - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestA nod to Banister Fletcher![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/Church-Tower-Combo-1.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/comperandum/) ### Ways of Seeing, Mental Health and Wellbeing: [ways of seeing - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestIn the late 1990’s I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. What made all the grit of the dark days worthwhile was that I was left with something that felt like a pearl - a new way of seeing and interacting with th…![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/FHyzRIjX0AAFR6X-1.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/ways-of-seeing-2/) ### Yew Tree Visitors Guide: [The Ancient Yew - Visitors GuideThe Ancient Yew - Visitors Guide![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/IMG_7669.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/the-ancient-yew-visitors-guide/) ### Wallpaper: [wallpaper collection - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestBeautifully curated wallpapers for your device.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/Collection-Matrix.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/wallpaper-collection/) ### Video: [video - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestA growing collection of videos to supplement the digest![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/tempImageHXJgfr.gif)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/video/) ### Place Writing: [place writing - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestMy place writing series brings together all of my writings on place from numerous sources including magazine and newspaper articles, blog, newsletter and digest. Where appropriate, I’ve made revisions, added additional text, information and photographs. It includes new posts too. Place writing art…![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/dji_fly_20221207_163646_260_1670430965419_aeb.JPG)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/place-writing/) ### Photography: [photography - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestThis isn’t a list of the mechanics of photography - but touches more upon the process, the use of light and my experiences with the camera. I’ve found that it’s the experience that counts - and there’s over 30 years of experience diluted into these posts.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/IMG_4735-1.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/photography/) ### Virtual Reality: [virtual reality - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestAlmost as good as being there...![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/Breamore-Hi-Res-Aerial-3-1.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/virtual-reality/) ### **Hidden Gems:** [hidden gem - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestSecret destinations, insider knowledge, little delights![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/IMG_2355-1.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/hidden-gem/) ### Road Trips: [road trip - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestAmazing road trips tried and tested in my camper van - free to all subscribers![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/southwell-1-8-copy.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/road-trip/) ### A Year in the Life [a year in the life - Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci DigestA Year in the life of an architectural photographer in his time-travelling camper van.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/01/_A6A5993-1.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/tag/a-year-in-the-life/) ---