WELLS is a miniature cathedral city that has not significantly altered in eight hundred years. The cathedral was founded in the twelfth century and the nearby cottages on cobbled medieval Vicars' Close have been continuously occupied by members of the cathedral clergy since the mid-fourteenth century. The row of clerical houses on the north side of the cathedral green are mainly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century, though one, the Old Deanery, shows traces of its fifteenth-century origins. You could spend a good half-day soaking up the historic ambience here, and Wells also works well as an accommodation stop for ... More
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WELLS is a miniature cathedral city that has not significantly altered in eight hundred years. The cathedral was founded in the twelfth century and the nearby cottages on cobbled medieval Vicars' Close have been continuously occupied by members of the cathedral clergy since the mid-fourteenth century. The row of clerical houses on the north side of the cathedral green are mainly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century, though one, the Old Deanery, shows traces of its fifteenth-century origins. You could spend a good half-day soaking up the historic ambience here, and Wells also works well as an accommodation stop for visiting nearby attractions in the Mendip Hills, especially the Wookey Hole caves and Cheddar Gorge.
Friday, October 2, 2009 Our flight was from St. Louis was great-although rather long. We did enjoy our stopover in Rekjavek, only wish we had stayed ...
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Friday, October 2, 2009 Our flight was from St. Louis was great-although rather long. We did enjoy our stopover in Rekjavek, only wish we had stayed overnight and gotten to see more than the airport! Found ouir way to our hotel with no problems either. The Blandford hotel is very nice, however the room was so small you could hardly walk around the foot of the bed!! But it was just fine, we didn't spend much time there anyway... Saturday, October 3 This trip I was finally able to see The Templar Church, and I was not dissapointed at all. We were lucky in that the Rector of the church was giving...
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Wells actually is a city, England's smallest. Like the village city of St David's in Wales, its claim to fame is its cathedral and what a cathedral at that. It rivals the ... More
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