Images from around Runnymede

 

Wraysbury side of the River Thames

 

Ankerwycke, The Ankerwycke Yew ,  St Mary’s Priory Ruins etc

 

Click < HERE > to link to some Ankerwycke WEB INFO

 

Just out of sight of the River is the Ankerwyke Yew – a tree some 2500 years old and 31 foot in girth.

Many believe that this is the most likely site for the sealing of the Magna Carta.

Historians also confirm that in Tudor times henry VIII used to rendevous with Anne Bolelyn at the tree.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

The Chalk and flint wall of the ruins of the 12th century Ankerwyke Priory

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

              

 

              

 

               

 

Photos by

Alan@PhotoEyes.biz