Goring Travel Guide

 easyoar Says:  I'm not sure how old this church actually is. I guess it must be several centuries old at least. The layout inside is a little unusual with all of the archways, it almost seems like a mini-cathedral in design.I'm sure Goring and Streatley have been affluent for a long time,... 

 easyoar Says:  Some churches have the bell ringers standing at the back of the church ringing the bells. This church in Streatley had an upstairs room up a narrow spiral staircase that was entirely seperate from the main church.This picture shows two bell ringers (campanologists) at work.... 

 easyoar Says:  Churchs in England tend to be split into dioceses. A diocese is essentially a region where all the churches within in it come under a particular bishop and his cathedral.Curiously, although St Mary's in Streatley is in Berkshire, it comes under the Diocese of Oxford (well so... 

 easyoar Says:  Fitting mufflers to the bells. Quite how I ended up in the bell loft of this church is a long story which I won't attempt to bore you with. It was however entirely unplanned. What you can see here are the bells turned upside down (they won't ring in this position) in order... 

 easyoar Says:  Goring is built along one side of a bank of the RIver Thames. If you didn't look carefully, you would not realise that it wasn't built on both sides of the river. The reason for this is that on the other side of the river the town name changes to Streatley. Indeed the... 

 easyoar Says:  Goring is well known locally for having very expensive property prices and for being a bit posh! It's a little unusual being on the banks of the river Thames. It sppears to straddle both sides of the Thames, but in actual fact as you cross the road bridge over the Thames,... 

 easyoar Says:  This is the Post Office in Goring, it looked like an old boat house to me, and when i asked, it was indeed an old Boat House (of what had been a very successful but now defunct Goring Rowing Club). Post Offices do not normally look anything like this one! Unsurprising it is... 

 easyoar Says:  This house to the left of the church belongs to a very famous popstar. I was kind of surprised that somebody like that would buy a house so much in the middle of the town, especially one who craves his privacy as much as this one. Although locals assure me that the garden is... 

 easyoar Says:  I don't know how International River Locks are, so it is probably a good idea to explain what they do. To make a river easy to navigate, it helps for the river to be as flat as possible with no rapid currents or swift descents. This may be the norm in Holland where the land...