Winter virtual travel: Starting off
This winter, I want to add some exercise to my days, using my stationary cylcle and Google Earth’s ‘Street View’ to travel to some of the places where my Spavold ancestors lived.
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This week I began my virtual travels in Nottinghamshire, travelling from Bawtry to Scunthorpe and then to Everton.
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| Date | From | To | distance | time |
| Oct. 28 | Bawtry | Scunthorpe | 2.5 km | 15 min |
| Oct. 29 | Scunthorpe | Everton | 2.5 kn | 20 min |
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The highlight of the virtual trip was seeing the Holy Trinity Church in Everton. This is the church where many Spavolds were baptised, married, and buried. They once walked through those doors! They walked the street I followed! The church was built in 1066 and still stands almost 1000 years later!!!! The original settlement was Danish, called Eofortun.
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The next stretch of my travels will be to Beckingham and then to Gainsborough in Lincolnshire where the earliest Spavold families lived in the 1400s.
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All my Best,
Jane Tims (a.k.a. Jane Spavold)
nichepoetryandprose 
is it difficult to make Street view move with you hands-free?
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Michele L Tremblay
November 10, 2024 at 8:49 am
I just put the computer in front of me and tap the screen second to second. It isn’t ideal but I am going at an easy pace. I think there must be a way to choose a route and have Street View play a video of progress.
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jane tims
November 10, 2024 at 10:33 pm