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Westlington Lane Cottages, Dinton - Photo:
Rob Farrow
CCL |
A picturesque village in the
Vale of Aylesbury, Dinton is famous for nurturing
a scholarly 17th century hermit named John Brigg
who lived in a local cave. The story goes that he
had been implicated in the execution of Charles l
in 1649. One of his shoes – now in the Ashmolean
Museum at Oxford – was made from over 1,000 pieces
of leather. He has no connection with a six-sided
‘castle’ built as a folly in the 18th century by
Sir John van Hatten to contain his collection of
fossils. |
