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Last Friday’s picture recorded how my daily exercise is a short walk around the block. On weekends we allow our exercise to take us a little further afield. Today was a longer walk across Cannon Hill Common and onward towards Morden. We stopped on Church Lane.
This is grave in St Mary's Church, Merton. From the outside it looks like a beautiful church. A religious building has stood here since before the Domesday Book was written. Some of the existing building dates back to 1115. The graveyard has a mix of all sorts of stones. It’s uneven, some of the stones look like they may fall at any moment but I found it lovely.
During the lockdowns we have done a number of self-guided local history walks as a way of getting out of the house when there’s no much else to do. In November, we did a walk based on Nelson’s connection with the area. Today, at this church, we found another link to The Admiral. Just across the street from the main entrance is a stone known as Nelson’s Steps, supposedly a horse mounting block that was used by Nelson to mount his horse - it’s just not as photogenic as some of the gravestones.
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