Always take me there

CHARON ferried the dead across the River Styx to the Underworld in ancient mythology, but his counterparts in Britain were not far behind and were less likely to tip their passengers out halfway across if they paid too soon. The need to cross rivers is older than records show and the of Gerry & The Pacemakers’ famous song has been in existence as long as any. There, tiny Seacombe with its stone slipway was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, before the Benedictine monks of Birkenhead Priory instigated a more formal service a century later. Similarly, on the Ouse in North Yorkshire, the route from Nun Monkton to Beningbrough was founded by Benedictine nuns