🏛️Invisible Cities
An East Anglian field, given over to grass and dog-walkers, used to be somewhere more, and something more.
One of the pleasures of living in East Anglia is the depth of its history. Layers upon layers of 🤯. I’m surrounded by dissolved monasteries from the time of Henry VIII. Older than that, we sport more medieval buildings than anywhere north of Italy. Older than that, circa 700AD, it’s a land of Christian miracles. Another jump back in time, as big a leap as from now to Shakespeare’s age, you’ll find the place swarming with the commerce and intrigue of Roman Britain.
And so I find myself signing up on Eventbrite for a tour of Venta Icenorum – present-day Caistor St. Edmund in Norfolk. The former capital of East Anglia. A rich and important place.
