Chew Stoke the floor of the Chew Valley. It is located along the Strode Brook tributary of the River Chew, on the northwest side of the Chew Valley Lake. While much of the area has been cleared for farming, trees line the tributary and many of the roads. The village is built along the main thoroughfare, Bristol Road, which runs northeast to southwest. An older centre is located along Pilgrims Way, which loops onto Bristol Road and features an old stone packhorse bridge—now pedestrianised—and a 1950s Irish bridge, used as a ford in winter. The bridge is wide and has parapets. Houses
Durga Chew-Bose "n+1", "Interview", "Paper", "Hazlitt", and "This Recording". In "Nylon", Kristen Iverson described Chew-Bose as "one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics"; in "The Guardian", Sarah Galo said, "If millennials have an intelligentsia, Brooklyn-based writer Durga Chew-Bose is a member of it[, writing] thoughtful long reads on identity and culture that command readers’ attention." Chew-Bose has also taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She has listed Agnès Varda and Wong Kar-wai among her important influences. Taking its title from one of Virginia Woolf's diary entries from 1931, Chew-Bose's "Too Much and Not the Mood" is an essay collection describing