There's 3 churches of this sort of age in the village, one looks almost identical, the other has a different style. Most churches are really old here.

It's easy to get blase about old buildings here, because there's so many. That's not to say that every building is old, far from it, it's just that there are still a lot of old buildings and they get preserved.

Like most people, my parents live in semi detached house, one building, two houses. The other side of it fell in to disprepair due to neglect from the local authority landlord and it it currently being demolished and a new house rebuild. There's been a house on the site since Oliver Cromwell was around, 1600's and at one time it was used as an inn off King Street (it's now the A41 truck road) where you would stop in with your stage coach to change horses. In the rubble of the demolished house they found a Jacobian (1600's) timber joint. There was a timber beam in our side when we were growing up that the landlord wanted to be replaced. They said the beam was likely to have been a mast in a sailing ship before it was installed in the house.

The farm house at work was built in around 1850. I've seen some old pictures of it, and not much has changed at all.

Where I live now is close to the Thames and would have been where a lot of invaders and explorers first landed over the centuries, there's also been a lot of smuggling and general skulduggery over time too, which probably explains the nature of the locals, but that's for another time. 

Being close to London, there's WW2 paraphernalia around like pillboxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillbox_(military), very often the fishermen drag up artilary out of the river, but that's relatively modern. Most of our railway infrastructure is Victorian and so are things like a lot of the sewerage system in london, which was massively over engineered.

Because these islands have been inhabited for milennia it's left its mark on the landscape if you know where to look and what you're looking at. People know about Stonehenge, but they weren't the only people here at the time. When the crops start dying off in the summer before they get ripe you can see marks in the field, and they're more clear from above with a drone or aircraft. The marks are very often old settlements and farmsteads that could be hindred and sometimes thousands of years old. I did a summer harvest job and stayed in the farmhouse.It was a big house that creaked in the wind, but there was something very odd about the place. The tractor driver there said it was on the site of a medievil village that got wiped out in the black death when all the residents died. A previous farm manager there often complained of hearing bees in the house. A pest control firm was called in expecting to find them in the loft space but and they found nothing. They eventually called a priest in to have it exorcised. I don't know if it worked, but it was still a creepy house to be alone in at night!

What is now the UK used to be connected to mainland Europe by land, then as the ice melted, the North Sea was formed. It's still not very deep and fishermen often dragged up deer antlers and arrowheads out of the sea. Some research as doone and they found a place called Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland I think this is the video I watched of it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECwfQQqRzo

There's a lot of old stuff here that we just take for granted