Abingdon, England - 22 April 2021; No people in shot. Magnificent panoramic vista of the Thames at Abingdon, including St Helens Church - centre frame
Abingdon, England - 22 April 2021; No people in shot. Magnificent panoramic vista of the Thames at Abingdon, including St Helens Church - centre frame - and St Helens Wharf - left of frame. The Wharf is a noted beauty spot on the River Thames, just upstream of the medieval bridge at Abingdon-on-Thames - to right of frame. 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. This scenic part of the Thames is always busy with boats, walkers, bikers and all sort of leisure
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