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I could be being very thick - but what is the "terrifying forty miles of solid brickwork"???
Those "Terrifying 40 miles"? DG means LONDON! Praise be indeed for the Green Belt, which has stopped the urban sprawl which blights so many of the world's cities. Without it, London would probably have dribbled out to Hertford, Southend, Crawley and Slough.

Incidentally, there is a London Green Belt Council which actively campaigns to maintain London's Green Belt. It is not run by the government. Instead, its membership is organisations such as parish councils, residents associations, friends groups, CPRE, etc, and it has just published a map of London's Green Belt.
Cranham gets a namecheck from Ian Dury in Poor Joey:

"In Cranham or Hounslow I sit on my perch.

Old Mother Nature's left me right in the lurch."

Any sign of depressed budgies on your visit DG?
DG, who is setting you these challenges?
Did you visit the local pubs? I bet he did!
I once participated in a "Team building Day" at Stubbers and very enjoyable it was.
"between town and country, the latter paved over"

Don't you mean the former (the town) is paved over?
I spend several cold winters' days learning (only partially successfully) to windsurf at Stubbers - the lakes there are old gravel pits IIRC. It was cold. Also memories of school cross-country runs along some of the route you took too....
How did you know that the person you met in the churchyard was a potter? And if I may ask, what did they reveal, though it was little out of the ordinary?

Ok, file the above under facetious comments. I enjoyed reading about Cranham. I grew up just outside this edge of London - which was another world that was rarely visited by my family or contemporaries.
I tried to check this place out on Google Maps. At first it sent me to Cranham, Gloucestershire. When I told it that no, I meant Cranham, London, it said 'No, what you want is Rainham'. Regular Google does that all the time, but I've never had Maps do it before.
Bob: I must admit I wondered briefly about the potter in the churchyard...










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