Friday, August 10, 2012

 United Kingdom - Symonds Yat, England

Tony Austin - United Kingdom - 10.08.2012


St. Dubricius Church and Tulip Tree. Symonds Yat, Whitchurch, Herefordshire, England. 

Symonds Yat is a village in the Forest of Dean and a popular tourist destination, straddling the River Wye and the borders of the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, it is within a few miles of the Welsh border. The name is said to come from Robert Symonds, a 17th century sheriff of Herefordshire and "yat" as an old word for a gate or pass. 

Whitchurch is a village in Herefordshire named after the church of Saint Dubricius which was originally white in colour. 

Saint Dubricius (c. 465 – 550 or 612) was a 6th century Briton ecclesiastic venerated as a saint. He was the evangelist of Ergyng (now Archenfield) and much of South-East Wales.

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