Bosham, West Sussex

Taken at low tide yesterday afternoon.

It was at Bosham that King Canute, tongue in cheek, ordered the waves to cease their movement. Canute was not so vain as to think he could actually command the tide; he was making a point to the courtiers who continually tried to curry favour by flattering him.

Bosham was not a happy place for the king, for it was here that his 8-year-old daughter tragically drowned in the millstream that runs directly outside the churchyard wall. The child was buried inside Holy Trinity Church, her grave marked by a simple stone plaque under the 11th-century chancel arch.

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