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Wells Cathedral

his cathedral’s namesake city is famed for, well… Wells. Some four million gallons of water flows up from the main source that is now located inside the grounds of the Bishop’s Palace. Many archaeological digs have established that settlers arrived here as far back as the Stone Age, while the remains of a Roman burial chamber and a Saxon minster

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