Lud's church is not, in the strictest sense, a church. It is a millstone grit chasm. It has a loose religious past though being tied with both Pagans and Christians.
It has also been linked to the 'Green Chapel' of Gawain and the Green Knight which is how it has found it's way into the Literature section. It is a place of myth and imagination, all the regular suspects queue up to be associated with it, Bonny Prince Charlie, Robin Hood, Friar Tuck...
It is also in Staffordshire, the county I grew up in and should perhaps know a little better than I do. So it is off to see the Green Knight and to walk among the moss and the stone.
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