Queen Æthelburh is a major character in my novel, Edwin: High King of Britain (she was Edwin’s wife and the instigator of his conversion to Christianity) so I was delighted to visit the church of St Mary and St Ethelburga in Lyminge, Kent, where she founded a monastery and where she was later buried.

It’s a lovely, atmospheric church with an excellent display inside about the extensive archaeological discoveries that have been made in and around the church. Well worth a visit.