Home on the market with 4 bedrooms and Tudor period escape tunnel
A home has gone up on the market with 4 bedrooms, a rest room, and a Tudor period escape tunnel. The exceptional property, in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, contains a tunnel beneath the bottom ground. Property web site Rightmove say it possible dates again to King Henry VIII.
In the advert, they mentioned whereas the tunnel might date again to the 16th century that the property above it dates again to the 17th century.
They mentioned the tunnel itself “goes from Hill View Cottage and joins up with several historic properties in the village, with a small central meeting room.
“It was likely to have been built when Henry VIII created the Church of England and was most likely used by Catholics and Protestants as an escape route when persons of authority visited, so as to avoid persecution.
“It is believed this could be the last remaining access to the tunnel, with others having been sealed off.”
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During the Reformation, King Henry VIII changed the Pope as head of the Church of England, inflicting a divide between Catholics and Protestants.
The King made the choice after the Pope refused to grant him a wedding annulment. Enraged by this choice, King Henry assumed authority over the Church of England.
History.co.uk mentioned Henry VIII’s choice to separate from Rome was a part of his wider want for a male inheritor.
They added: “The effects of the English Parliament passing a series of acts that made King Henry ‘Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England’ turned England into a sovereign state but also created a religious schism in the country between Catholic and Protestant worshippers.
“A climate of religious and political discord and bloodshed between the two opposing religions as a result of the Reformation continued well into Elizabeth I’s forty-four-year reign and into the seventeenth century.”