If you ever find yourself at the furthest-most reaches of eastern Essex, way out in the wilds of the Dengie Peninsula, as far as the land goes until it becomes cockle spit and salt marshes, and where the North Sea is just a few yards away, do go and visit the amazing St Peter's on the Wall.
Built in 650 AD by St Cedd, using stones from the Roman fort of Odona that originally stood on the site, it is the oldest remaining church in England. I have never visited anywhere quite like it, it is totally other-worldly and utterly beautiful.
It is reached via a rough path between fields
with a WWII pill box in each one.
Where the sky seems to go on forever.
And where it is just too far away from civilisation to have ever been wired up to the national grid.
It was stunning and well worth battling the fierce wind howling off the North Sea to see it.
Very atmospheric.
Love from Mum
xx
Posted by: Mum | 10/07/2011 at 07:14 PM
I never knew this place existed. Must look it up immediately!
Posted by: Loo xx | 10/07/2011 at 08:06 PM
That is absolutely amazing. It punctuates a conversation I had with a coworker the other day about how everything here in the US is so new.
Posted by: kathleen | 10/08/2011 at 02:08 AM
Wonderful. I'd never heard of it either. How lovely and thank you for expanding my world--again. Jeaniei
Posted by: jeanie | 10/11/2011 at 04:29 AM