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Lud's Church

Natural Rock Feature

Folklore

This is no ordinary church - it's a 150m long cleft in the gritstone here, dripping with ferns and sogginess. At its deepest/highest point the walls tower 14m above you.

It is (possibly) the legendary chapel of the Green Knight in Arthurian legend: Gawain met him for the second time here. To discover the story, get hold of one of these
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Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
31st May 2002ce
Edited 5th June 2009ce

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