Sunday Times Travel Comp Feb 2Nd 2020

[montgom]

Anyone know the name of the village and tomb ? better still the 2nd village
Thanks

[Chinajan]

Is this your question?

Where Was I?

Friend and I are at loggerheads. We’ve spent the morning pottering about in countryside west of a city, and particularly enjoyed a village church — home to an Elizabethan lawyer’s palatial tomb. Now, over a pub lunch in a second village, 1½ miles west-southwest of the church, we’ve decided we want a more urban afternoon.

But there’s a problem. I’m in favour of a return to the city. Friend fancies a town immediately west of it.

“Come on, me old china,” I urge Friend, trying to stoke the fires of his interest. “Nothing’s going to match the city’s main museum.” It’s not just its collection of the city’s best-known product that will dazzle us. It also exhibits a fine array of 19th- and 20th-century British paintings. And part of an Anglo-Saxon hoard.

“No,” Friend says. “I must see where she was born.” He’s referring to his “favourite author” (brother: Edward). She spent her first 18 months in the town before living a famous youth.

“Museum,” I counter.

“Author,” he insists. In a moment of weakness, I crumble. So it is that, an hour later, I’m trailing Friend in the middle of the town, 9½ miles northeast of our pub lunch.

Hang on: what’s this? I’m expecting a house with a commemorative plaque. Instead, Friend has led me to a cake shop. Apparently, he’s wanted to return since he tasted one of its brownies two years ago. What about the author? “We’ll get to that later,” he says, between chocolatey mouthfuls. “But the day’s already been quite cultural, don’t you think?” “More like a testament to your sweet tooth,” I grumble.

— Sean Newsom

[Fibonacci]

Link if anyone wants to enter
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/expert-traveller/where-was-i/

[AlBert3]

The tomb village is Ashley Staffordshire. The second village is Loggerheads. The pub is the Loggerhead arms

[AlBert3]

The Village is Ashley in Staffordshire. The second village is Loggerheads. The pub is the loggerheads arms. The clue is he said him and his pal were ay Loggerheads.

[zebo]

Used to love driving through there on our way back from Llanberis, should be twinned with Bickering and Wittering out this way.

[Captain2]

zebo - is the pub called We Three Loggerheads by any chance? If so I worked on an alteration to the pub many years ago.

[zebo]

Don't know about the pub, it was the name of the village that tickled me, we were usually exhausted after a rainy weekend in Wales, en route to our then home in the NW.

[Garmouth]

Zebo - if you were going from Llanberis to the NW, I don't think you'd have gone to this Loggerheads but to the one outside Mold in North Wales
Captain2 - the We Three Loggerheads is also in the North Wales one.