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Day: 8 January 2022

Posted on 08/01/202209/01/2022

The Oldest Door in Britain

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As you walk through a passageway that links the cloisters to the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey, you walk past a doorway that is generally lit with a spotlight on a stand. Next to it is a sign: ‘Britain’s Oldest Door’.

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