Bumbling around today having decided to come off the Middleton Top trail and explore the surrounding countryside. Warmest November day since records began they say. Highlight of the trip was a ride through Bradbourne – and a wander inside and out of the All Saints village church. The church is one that has so much charm if I lived nearby I’d go every Sunday just for the atmosphere and to be part of it. Riding though the village and roaming the grave yard I was struck by the absence of a Great War memorial and any Great War headstones which are a feature of every British village in my experience. But nothing of the like. Turns out there is none as Bradbourne was a blessed village with all it’s fathers, brothers, sons, and uncles surviving the carnage of the First World War.