St Oswald's Priory
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Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 7 Feb 2023
The ruins of St Oswald's an Anglo-Saxon Minster and Medieval Priory. The church was originally built around the year 900 by Aethelflaed, the daughter of Alfred the Great. The priory was dissolved in 1537 at the time of the reformation.