Setting the scene for 'A Knight's Enchantment'

One of the pleasures of writing historical fiction is the chance to explore the way places were hundreds of years ago, so, as part of my background research for A Knight's Enchantment, I paid a visit to the West Country.

Templecombe, where some of my scenes are set, is one of those thousands of English villages with a quiet present and a busy past, sitting in a land of wide green valleys and warm golden stone on the Somerset/Dorset border with the abbey towns of Shaftesbury to the east, Sherb...