Andy Marshall

📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: 🚴🏛️📸 The Ilkley Loop

If I could have a love affair with a place it would be Ilkley.

Patina 37th Edition

📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: 📸 My services for free at Broadwell in Oxfordshire.

The interior of the church is full of atmosphere and holds the whispers of the past in its orientation, its archaeology and in the graffiti on its walls.

📍Loci: Ghostly Magic at Broadwell in Oxfordshire

I stand and wait and watch and, as the air is captured within the beams of sunlight, I start to see faces forming and dissipating in the haze.

📍Loci: Ashwell - Medieval Graffiti Centre of the World?

The medieval inhabitants of Ashwell chose to leave their mark in the material fabric of St. Mary's church.

📍Loci: Quantumly Entangled to Dad

Could the essence of a place hold a palpable memory of the past through the process of quantum entanglement?

📍Loci: Bosham - birthplace of Harold Godwinson

Bosham is a place that perfectly matches the title of this digest. Beyond its organic beauty there is a palpable atmosphere that consists of aftershocks to historic events from the past.

📍Loci: Britain’s Lichen Fields – Sanctuaries of Awe

For me, more than any diamond-encrusted piece of jewellery, I find myself captivated by the visceral beauty of a lichen-encrusted churchyard.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 Jan 2026

This little place that looks like a house stands as a marker in Britain’s incremental movement towards toleration.