An interesting Church Town, (Kirkbyn in Swedish) named Gammelstad or “Old Town”, in Sweden right next door to a huge cemetery and “Godsterminal” not “cemetery” as we might have hoped, which John says means Goods Depot! Pity! Appropriately a funeral was in process when we arrived.
The Church is medieval and the town was the main seaport for this part of Sweden but the land has risen a metre every century since the end of the Ice Age so the sea is now a long way away. The photo of the field was once the harbour. Folk from the surrounding farm hamlets built little overnight log cabins so that they could attend the church. It was also the only opportunity to go courting that young people had. Actually they ‘bundled’ what with the snow being too deep to go walking together. So look up ‘bundling’.
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