The back wall of the church (of the previous post) yard is on top of the River Ouse and might well, in the absence of the illustrated instruction, be a handy spot to fish from. One wonders why the church wardens saw fit to forbid it: one can understand that one would not want a line of heavily tooled up fishermen along the wall at the time of a divine service, but not clear what the objection would be at other times.
One also wonders how they got away with building a church so close to a river which regularly floods. The ground is presumably nothing more substantial than relatively recent alluvium, so what is holding the church up when the river gets going in a big way? Maybe not much and that is where the rest of the steeple went?
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