When we photographed the stone we did not notice the rectangular clearing around it but this Google Satellite image displays the space well. This c...
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To the casual passerby these strips look like the expansion joints one sees on bridges. It was David Brown who drew our attention to what is actual...
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Lines laid out in the grass can just be seen in our photo. They indicate what is now thought to be the site of the original Priory Church and in ou...
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Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be seen at ground level, the (partial) outlines of the two churches: 1673 a...
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The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones marking out...
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