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Lud's Church

Near Gradbach, Staffordshire

A mossy chasm where outlaws worshipped and a Green Knight waited.

Lud's Church is a deep, narrow cleft in the rocks, cool and covered in ferns and moss. Legend says the Lollards, followers of the reformer John Wycliffe, worshipped here in secret in the 1400s.

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When
Natural, legend
Where
53.1880, -2.0220
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

A woodland walk from Gradbach car park. Free.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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