King John

• Silent Pool, Surrey

  Natural Landmarks × South East England

  

  A chalk spring, a dam built in 1662 and a Victorian novelist who gave it a royal drowning: the story of Surrey’s Silent Pool, and how to visit it for free.

• Waverley Abbey

  South East England × Churches & Cathedrals

  

  Twelve monks from France, a river that kept flooding and a king who stayed for Holy Week: the story of Britain’s first Cistercian abbey, now a free ruin beside the River Wey near Farnham.