Contents



Content :  

Tinseltown on Thames

Where and Why

Sets and Settings

The Rough Guide to Hell 

Welcome to Hell

Dante's Inferno

Bosch's Garden of Delights

Milton's Paradise Lost

The History of Hell 

Middlesex & Metroland 

Middlesex : A Virtual County:

Ossulstone (deceased)

The Suburban Sprawl

The Suburban Semi

A Thousand Words on a Brick

Excursions in Metroland : Stanmore

Excursions in Middlesex : The Old Canal

Excursions in Metroland : The Kilburn Klondike 

Edward Watkin : The Victorian Elon Musk  

Other Places 

Holland: The 17th c. Instagram 

Thames Town : Shanghai

Norilsk : Siberia

Pointe Gourde (our Housing Shortage)

The World : Dubai

The World : At Sea

The Universe : A Pootler's Guide to Alien Planets 

The Universe : Unimaginable Worlds 

Davos

A Hillfort Near You

The Olde Country Cottage

A Game of Thrones : Wallingford & Ewelme

Rothschildshire

Other People 

Mad Ludwig

The Man Who Broke France

Psycho Section

On Psychogeography : Without Enthusiasm

Psycho Geography : With Vitriol

Psychotropicgeography : Mindbending

This Land is.....

This Land is Your Land : Series Intro  

The Lie of the Land: It's The Crown's, Not Yours. 

(The following are links to posts on pootler.co.uk. They provide context for the landscape notes in the cycle routes there, and the main focus is on south east England, north of the Thames.) 

Series : The Deep Past            The Story of the Land : Intro

1.   Hell to High Water              Creation to Extinction

2.   Coming Up For Air              England Arrives. 

3    Mud                                     How our stones started life

4.  The Chalk                           The Chalk Beneath 

5.   Chilling Out                         The Ice Ages

6.   Welcome Homo                   Hunters & Gatherers

7.   Enter The Flintstones          The First Farmers

8.   Bronze & Iron                      Stonehenge to Silchester 

9.   Britons to Saxons                Anglo-Saxon SE England 

10. Medieval Countryside          The 'Open Field' system 

11. The Planned Countryside    Enclosure

12. The 'Ancient' Countryside    Resisting Change 

14  Today & Tomorrow               What you will see now & next.