St Mary's Parish Church, Broadwater
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St Mary's Parish Church, Broadwater
Image: © Paul Gillett Taken: 15 Jun 2013
Church website: http://www.broadwaterparish.com/stmarys.htm The Normans built a small church on this site, of which only the tower remains as evidenced in its arches, though the clay subsoil has required successive repair and reinforcement of this tower. Legend has it that a Norman tunnel leads from the church to the nearby Broadwater Manor School (previously Broadwater Manor House). The tunnel may have been used as either an escape or smuggling route. Efforts to find the concealed entrance both from the church and the School in the 1980s were in vain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary's_Church,_Broadwater
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Image Location
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50.827652
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-0.373582