WRAYSBURY

WRAYSBURY - AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

It was by chance – I got to follow a group of Methodist Church members to visit Wraysbury. 

CHURCH MEMBERS AND THE WRITER (R) POSING IN FRONT OF A YEW TREE

We made a stop-over St Andrew Church on the hill side where the early settlers, the Saxon brought Christianity to this place. Some 600 saxon settled here, not Romans a form a saxon settlement, here.

There are evidence of tools left behind by the saxon community. In 1086, was named as Domes Day – 39 people and 7 slaves lived in Wraysbury. They communicated by ferry and Wraysbury is part of Royal Forest Windsor. 

ST ANDREW'S CHURCH

The Magna Carge of Runnymede is itself an island, a prairie (1154) and a farm, Now, the St Mary's Priory (The National Trust) took over the farm area rearing horses and cattles.

Somewhere here, there is the Ankerwick Yew Tree existed 15,000 years ago – situated closed to River Thames is considered a religious place whereby yew tree is used in church. The Yew Tree becomes a hermitage and a form of sanctuary in a cell in centre of the tree. Unchanged landscape in Wraysbury, which is a floody place and the people had made it higher so that residents can travel from Wraysbury to Staines.

POSING WITH THE HOLY YEW TREE

The Runnymede is famous as the meadows where King John sealed the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215 and Ankerwycke is home to the only witness to this historic event some 2000 years old Yew. Archaeologist have found evidence of human activity as early as the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and signs of roman occupation across the River of Ankerwycke. This land has been home to a Tudor Secretary of State – hosted Edgam races, sketched by Turner and commit to verse in Rudyard Kiplings famous poem “The Reeds of Runneymede”.

RUNNYMEDE FARM

JUNE 26, 2015