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Margery Allingham Walk
Circular walk around Chappel including visiting Chalkney Wood which holds 'a wide variety of wildlife including deer, badgers and over 30 species of breeding birds. The plant and and insect communities include a number of rare species'.
'Margery Allingham was a distinguished author who lived in Viaduct farm, Chappel, in the early 1930's before moving to Tolleshunt D'arcy. Her principal genre was detective fiction and Agatha Christie regarded Margery's books as superior to her own. However it was the publication in 1941 of the "The Oaken Heart" which detailed life in the Village of Pontisbright (the old name for Chappel) in the late thirties, which shows her deep affection for the village and its people. The book focuses particularly on the village cricket club and the annual cricket parties, instigated by her husband, Pip Carter. This walk was named by Chappel Parish Council.'
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