This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Balding, with another edition of ramblings.

The birds had been silenced momentarily by the tolling of the bell. I can smell grass that was definitely cut this morning and just the last vestiges of the summer sun.

It feels that in the air as if autumn has most definitely arrived and I'm standing outside all saints church, which is a huge medieval church in the tiny village of Bolton Percy and it seems a shame on such a sunny day to start our walk inside.

But there is a good reason for this,

because I'm coming here to meet two academics

who are specialists in the poet Andrew Marvel,

and they are Stuart Motrim and Dr John Wedgwood Clark.

So today we're not just going rambling, we're going marvelling.

The hymns for last weekend are listed 170, 209, 343 and 192. Standing ahead of me in the light streaming through the

stained glass window is Stuart and John. It doesn't this feel like you are doing something that

even in, well, Marvel's time,

he'd have stood here and seen exactly the same thing.

Exactly.

And Marvel would have known this church when he was staying at Nan Appleton in the early 1650s.

This would have been his local parish church.

And the uncle of his patron, Thomas Lord General Fairfax,

the uncle Henry Fairfax was vicar of the church at the time.

I love that idea that it's still, you're haunting the spaces

that people like Marvell and Fairfax would have moved through.

Your body is in that, You're touching the same fabric.

The stonework over there is sort of stained with grease

and the steps are worn.

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