While in my hometown Bury over Christmas, me and my friend John chose the wrong day to visit Whalley Abbey (up near Clitheroe in traditional Lancashire), as it was heavily drizzling, the sort of rain that gets you wet through from head to toe:
Still, no matter the weather, there's nothing like old abbey ruins to give you a remnant taste of pre-Reformation England. Often wonder what England would be like today if there'd been no Reformation, probably a bit like Southern Ireland is today, but I'm only dreaming/guessing here.
My friend John, who isn't Catholic, loved the place as it just gave him a sense of history and beauty, a real nice summary of the place, I think.
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