Originally Posted by
chezza
there is a tunnel running through the mersey to the wirral. it led to a now gone abbey that was built during the reformamation, The tunnel was built to escape persecution and to hide in. Several attempts have been made to find it but they have been unable to use geo-physics surveys as of the sandstone that liverpool is built on.
Birkenhead Priory? Stanlaw Abbey near present-day Ellesmere Port?
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If the latter, it's extremely unlikely since that abbey was built where the Mersey is its widest. A fine tale but total legend surely.
Chris
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