Sunday 9 April 2017
Wenlock Priory Shropshire
Today was stunning and even warmer than yesterday.
First stop was Wenlock Priory. It is simply beautiful.
Originally founded as an abbey by King Merewalh of Mercia in 680, he sent his sister Milburge there in 687. She did well keeping both Nuns and Monks in check and was so good at performing miracles such as making the geese that were eating her crops disappear forever (could do with her along the canal towpaths when cycling at the moment) she became a saint.
By 901 Lady Godiva decided this should be a single sex place for the boys and rebuilding began. They even managed to dig up Milburge’s bones, sorry relics and so the Priory became a place of pilgrimage Eventually the Clunians took charge and ran the place by repute and disrepute until old Henry VIII dissolved the place in 1540.
In the peaceful town of Much Wenlock, the place is so pretty. Recommend the audio tour
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