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Isambard Kingdom Brunel & the pair of rails on Vicarage Bridge, Kintbury.

If you walk westwards along the canal tow path out of Kintbury, you pass under Vicarage Bridge. You will notice, as you approach the bridge, a pair of rails attached to the brickwork on the right hand side. You could easily mistake these rails for a pair of butresses but that was not their original…

by kintburyandbeyond 29th Mar 202629th Mar 2026

Celebrating Ethel King Martyn and the murals of Inkpen church

In Medieval England, many church walls were decorated with colourful murals depicting Biblical scenes or the lives of saints. In an age of mass illiteracy, these images helped in the teaching of scripture and often provided a warning of what might happen to those who strayed from the narrow path of righteousness. “Doom” paintings depicting…

by kintburyandbeyond 27th Feb 202615th Feb 2026

After the armistace: Return to Kintbury

We know the names of the village men who died in the First World War as they are recorded, quite rightly, on the war memorial and in the church. However, it is much more difficult, at over a hundred years’ distance, to find the names of those who returned to the village in the months…