View of Mickleton from Glyde Hill

June 1975, camera facing W.

Villages that spread along a main road rarely look attractive to the casual visitor so it was important to show Mickleton in its true setting.

We had climbed up the fields on Glyde (or Glide) Hill on a village footpath walk, one of a series on the first Sunday in the month organized in European Architectural Heritage Year by the Mickleton Society for everyone interested, and patronised by every age group from four to 70+, when turning at the top to get our breath, we saw this, with new eyes, and said ‘That’s it’. Our patient photographer returned another day and caught just what we wanted – with the Church spire just visible in the trees on the right hand side of the picture.