Barthomley

by Alec and Val Scaresbrook

The White Lion Inn (built in 1614 as a cottage, not a pub) is an attractive place to pause although this hamlet of half-timbered houses is a short distance off the cycleway. The brook which runs alongside the pub is Wulvarn Brook, the name being derived from wolf and echoing the tale that the last wolf in Britain was killed in this area.

Opposite the pub is the mainly 15th century St Bertoline church - the scene of an English Civil War massacre by Royalists in the 1640s when they killed twelve villagers who had shot at them before taking refuge in the tower. See the map below