Saint Helen's Wharf is a noted beauty spot on the River Thames, just upstream of the medieval bridge at Abingdon-on-Thames . The wharf was for centuri
Saint Helen's Wharf is a noted beauty spot on the River Thames, just upstream of the medieval bridge at Abingdon-on-Thames . The wharf 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. Needless to say, this ancient church gives the later wharf its name. Here we see both on a fine spring morning.
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