Benchmark, St Mary and St Hardulph - Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
Posted by: SMacB
N 52° 48.359 W 001° 23.972
30U E 607884 N 5851889
VERY worn cut benchmark on SE corner of church
Waymark Code: WMHZCR
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/31/2013
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This very worn benchmark looks likely to soon be lost to erosion by wind and rain. Many of the church stones are pocked and sculpted by the elements.
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Hardulph was originally a monastery founded in about 676 on the site of an Iron Age hill fort. It was refounded as an Augustinian priory in the early 12th century. Before becoming a monastery it was a hermitage.
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