Sublime

two large medieval churches: Peterborough’s massive twelfth-century cathedral and St Mary’s, the parish church of Whittlesey, with its soaring fifteenth-century spire.

the parish church, windmill and lovely Georgian houses of the little Fen village of Moulton

any place in England where the name ends in “wich” at one time produced salt.

At Wrekin’s western foot lies the hamlet of Rushton, ‘Rush farm’, a score of houses set alongside a lane that forms a small loop. Five minor roads and footpaths radiate out from, or converge on, Rushton. The suffix -tun implies a central place or functionally significant settlement. Together with the radial routes the name suggests that, early in i