Building began in 1118 and took 120 years to complete. It contains the tomb of Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's first wife who died in 1536 and whose divorce caused the Reformation) and the Hedda ...

If you lived in 1541 and you were going on King Henry VIII’s Great Progress from London to York, you’d have been walking for weeks in the cold and wet, through mud and horse droppings ...