Which cathedral is this?

[Julia S]

I have an 1850s women's magazine which has an article about a cathedral graveyard, including some MIs. But it doesn't say which cathedral.
It says it's 2 miles from the coast, where two rivers meet, with the ruins of an abbey nearby.
Which cathedral is it?

Julia (in Australia)

[Polldoll]

There is one in Wales thatI know of just 2 miles from the coast ...St. Davids...
http://www.history-tourist.com/V2/wales/st-davids-cathedral_S0379.html 


Poll

[Julia S]

I think this one is in England.
And there are no rivers near St Davids.
The writer caught a ferry - in 1851 -  to get to it.

[Yorkslass]

Hi Julia,

I think it could be Truro Cathedral - two rivers, the Fal and the Truro meet there, and it isn't far from the coast - http://www.stmawes.info/truro-cornwall

Yorkslass

[jorose]

Easiest thing would probably be for us to look for some of the names in the MIs - particularly if there's any unusual ones.

Truro Cathedral wasn't built until the 1880s, so a bit too late.
Bristol? (A bit far from the coast, but there are some bits of the old abbey around there)
Exeter?

[Polldoll]

Portsmouth? 

[RichardK]

Chichester?
Chester?
Carlisle?
(why do cathedrals near the coast all seem to begin with C?)

Porstmouth doesn't have an Anglican Cathedral, although I think it might have a Catholic one, but that will be relatively modern.

[JenB]

Porstmouth doesn't have an Anglican Cathedral,

Portsmouth does have an Anglican Cathedral - I know because I attended a wedding there once  http://www.portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/

[Little Nell]

Snap Jen!  St Thomas in Portsmouth used to be the parish church and wasn't elevated to cathedral status until the 20th century.

Exeter?  Ely is a bit more than two miles from the coast.

Most medieval cathedrals will possibly have some parts of an abbey nearby, since they often formed the church for the abbey/monastery.  Henry VIII may have done away with the monks etc but did not deprive the local people of their church.

Nell