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📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Malmesbury in Wiltshire
Malmesbury is famously the burial site of the first king of all England: Aethelstan.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Delightful Vernacular Buildings of Chipping in Lancashire.
Still laid out on it's C17th plan, Chipping shows signs in the decor of its facades of former wealthy times.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Buildings of Lavenham
Environmental psychologist Lily Bernheimer says that older buildings appeal to use because of their fractal nature. The use of materials and patterns that reflect natural forms.
📍Loci: In Praise of the Wonky Buildings of Lavenham
I’m drawn to them because of their honesty: the indigenous construction emerges from the ground in organic forms without any regards for symmetry.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 May 2026
What struck me walking through Louth was how much cohesion is embedded within these surfaces. The town feels less designed and more incremental - shaped gradually through negotiation between utility, beauty, repair and inheritance.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 1 May 2026
This is why places like Catherine Hill matter - not because they contain answers, but because they hold a way of arriving at them that seems to accommodate the flaws of the present.
📍Loci: The Volute and the Cobbled Floor
Chipping Campden’s buildings betray a tantalising glimpse of the hopes, trials and tribulations of a single community throughout the growth of the town.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 21 Nov 2025
I think of it all - all that richness - and breathe deeply. These interventions make the place feel alive, as if the street itself is a mix of nutrients that nourish us as individuals and as communities.