Trip to Buford
Today a group of us took a short field trip to the ancient town of Buford to check out a cathedral that has parts that date back to the year 600 A.D. and to take a walk through the English countryside to a town that was completely wiped out by the plague. The only thing remaining today is the town church, which has been restored to its original form.

This is the cathedral at Buford, which has been added on to many times in its history. It started out as a small Saxon church and as the years went by, many generous benefactors who wished to show their piety, built chapel additions to the church after they died.


The view of the other half of the cathedral pictured above.

No, this isn't the chocolate river from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but it does serve as evidence to how muddy our hike through the country side was going to be.

This is a picture of part of the right of way passage that we used to get to the church in the abandoned village. This is a right of way passage, which is part of a complex web of walking paths that are all over England. They are a tradition dating back to medieval times, when people would use these paths as their only way to get from one town to the next. Many of these path go straight through people's property or farm fields and make it real easy to explore the countryside.


This is the church that is the only remaining building in the deserted medieval town.