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The Internet | Someone asked if I would take a photo of the churches in the area. I was near one of them today.
According to the Internet, it dares back to the 12th century in its current state, but Christianity has been around here for about 1,000 years and there would have been some sort of place of worship there prior to then building the current structure. It's built of Kentish Ragstone, Kent is the other side of the river Thames to here, but I don't know where in Kent they got the stone from, they will have almost certainly brought here by barge.
I took a picture of a headstone on a soldier that was killed in the First World War. A lot of churches of this era have WW1 graves and memorials in the church yard. Most of the soldiers were just young lads, and it pretty much wiped out a generation of men. My grandmother wanted a big family, because when she was young she was surrounded by maiden aunts. These women weren't single because they were all raging feminists who didn't need no man, etc, they were single because so many men had been killed in the war there weren't enough to go around.
We're quite close to the continent geographically here, and I'm told that the bigger bombs could be heard here.
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Local (very old) Church
