Gregory's Servernot far from here there's 'sambos grave', an 18th century funerary monument to an enslaved person who died here. the story is so deeply fucking tragic but there are thousands upon thousands like it which are of course never told. britain lives in an evil, festering silence about what it did.
we careered north and came to cartmel priory, founded in 1188 by the biggest bastard of all time, william marshal. it was saved from dissolution because the village argued this outrageously outsized monster building was their parish church. it's full of gorgeous intrigue