Abingdon, England - 15 April 2021; No people in shot. Magnificent vista of the Thames at Abingdon, including St Helens Church and St Helens Wharf. Th
Abingdon, England - 15 April 2021; No people in shot. Magnificent vista of the Thames at Abingdon, including St Helens Church and St Helens Wharf. This part of the Thames, just upstream of the medieval bridge at Abingdon, is a noted beauty spot, often frequented by boats, joggers, dog walkers - and even photographers! It was for centuries an important transport and shipping link up the Thames and between canals from Oxford and the Midlands. Fine merchant houses rub shoulders with alms houses and the noted Saxon-era Saint Helens Church. A Christian place of worship has been at this location at the confluence of the Thames and Ock rivers since the year 995. In fact, a Saxon Minster may have been here since the 7th Century. The Church is named after St Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the official state religion of Rome. It is reputed that she visited the Holy Land in her old age and found fragments of the cross. Needless to say, this ancient church gives the much later wharf its name.
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