Aldworth, Bisham & St. George's Chapel, Windsor in Berkshire. Aldworth is a small village and civil parish, close to the northern edge of the ceremonial county of Berkshire. Aldworth village is situated on the high ground of the Berkshire Downs or North Wessex Downs. The highest stretch of the downs runs east along the Berkshire/Hampshire border on the opposite side of the River Kennet from the Berkshire Downs. The downland is part of the Chalk Formation of southern England which runs from the Dorset in the west to Kent in the east and also includes the Dorset Downs, Purbeck Hills, Cranborne Chase, Wiltshire Downs, Salisbury Plain, the Isle of Wight, Chiltern Hills and the North and South Downs. Watership Down is the title of Richard Adams's first and most successful novel. The novel is about a group of rabbits and is named after a hill in the north of Hampshire, England.
The Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, one of the finest Norman buildings in England, is the second largest parish church in England, having become so at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Fourteen of England's cathedrals are of smaller dimensions; only Westminster Abbey contains more medieval tombs. The Chronicle of Tewkesbury records that the first Christian worship was brought to the area by Theoc, a missionary from Northumbria, who built his cell in the mid-7th century near on a gravel spit where the Severn and Avon rivers join together. The cell was succeeded by a monastery in 715, but nothing remaining of it has been identified.
 | Croome D'Abitot & Elmley Castle Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. Great Malvern Priory, in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, was a Benedictine monastery c.1075-1540 and is now a parish church. During the reign of Edward the Confessor, Saint Wulfstan, the Bishop of Worcester, encouraged a hermit named Aldwyn to found a monastery in what was then the wilderness of Malvern Chase. According to the Worcester Monastic Annals this work began in 1085. The Priory was built for thirty monks on land belonging to Westminster Abbey. A charter from Henry I in 1128 AD refers to Great Malvern Priory as 'the Priory of St Mary'. In 1154-1156, Westminster Abbey obtained a 'bull' from Pope Adrian IV which confirms a strong dependency of the priory of St Mary, Malvern, on the Abbey of Westminster. |
Bisham is a village and civil parish in the Windsor and Maidenhead district of Berkshire, on the River Thames, north of which is Marlow in Buckinghamshire-on Bisham Abbey, a 13th century manor house, originally built for the Knights Templar but later the residence of the Montagu (or Montacute) Earls of Salisbury and the Hoby family.
St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter. The chapel is located in the Lower Ward of the castle, which is currently one of the principal residences of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Chapel of St Edward the Confessor was attached to the second of two religious colleges which were founded in 1348 by King Edward III and rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Edward the Confessor and St George the Martyr... St George's Chapel became the mother church and the Lady Chapel, which was then abandoned in favor of building it at Westminster Abbey.