Bit by bit I'm walking the Green Chain walk with my son and it's an absolute eye opener. Yesterday we passed through Plumstead and discovered that there's a Neolithic barrow in the middle of Winn's Common.
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An hour or so earlier and we were at Abbott's Wood - a place I've driven through hundreds of times ... not knowing that there are the remains of an actual 12th c Abbey there that was destroyed during the dissolution 
We walked for hours through woodland and felt like we were in a different part of the country altogether. I suppose the lesson is that even in suburban London there's this whole other world of history lurking just off the streets and byways.
Abbey Wood... darned it
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