At Thorpeness, you can visit the Meare Shop and Tearoom,
and say hello to Henry, the Muscovy duck.

 

Thorpeness was largely built as a pseudo-Tudor holiday village in the early 20th century.
This impressive "Elizabethan" courtyard entrance dominates the northern edge of the village.

 

The Meare, with the boathouse on the far right

 

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Walking from the Elizabethan end of the village, with my back towards "The Meare" - the man-made boating and wildfowl lake, created at the same time as the rest of the holiday homes.

 

I use a Mavica MVC-FD7, which has a 10x zoom - I took this shot from same spot as I took the two-part panorama above.

 

What so many kids do (whatever their age!) -
learning to love and respect animals in the wild by feeding them.

 

The Canada Goose is not indigenous to Britain (surprised, eh?) and
in some parts is becoming a pest due their large numbers.

 

January 2000

Someone asked if "The House in the Clouds" is still there.
Yes, it certainly is, and so is the nearby windmill

 

 

April 2001 - views of Thropeness from the shingle beach