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This is my church, this is where I heal my hurts... 💚

Lovely walk along Hunstanton cliff top

There is no road nearby, no car park, no sign posts or easy access. You have to walk a mile or more along bridleways and through a lot of sheep, cows and abandoned farm buildings. There is a little information board when you get to it, in a clearing in the middle of a small wood, but nothing else. Just some crumbling walls and a low wooden structure covered in corrugated iron, ivy and moss. You have to bend low and scramble in and take off the rocks and then the increasingly ratty tarpaulin that covers it. And there it is, a floor piece thousands of years old, still showcasing the incredible craftmanship that went into its making. The sense of history is tangible, it gives you goosebumps because for once this slice of ancient history not heavily curated, seperated from you by some gleaming glass case in a museum. It lies there quietly in a wood in a Cotswold valley welcoming all visitors to walk where the Romans once walked.

This is England.