The Cathedral of the Marshes

THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS WIFE FOR A SHILLING

Blythburgh’s magnificent medieval church commands river and marsh from a site associated with Christianity for over one thousand three hundred years.  But how many of the stream of visitors attracted to the church every year realise that just to one side of the path they take from car park to south door, is the last resting place of George Whincop, village blacksmith, and witness to a most curious event that took place in Blythburgh on Thursday the 29th of October 1789. On that day Samuel Balls sold his wife for a shilling. Read more …