Anchor Church is the name given to a series of interesting caves along the banks of the River Trent, close to the village of Ingleby, Derbyshire.
Once a sandstone outcrop on the banks of the River Trent, the river is what formed the caves, and records of them stretch back to 1658 in the Repton church records. The caves are now a Grade II Listed Building.
The name Anchor Church comes from the term anchorite, which in Christianity means someone who for religious reasons withraws, a sort of religious hermit, and it is thought that the caves were originally the cell of the Anchorite hermit, St Hardulph, aka Eardwulf of Northumbria, the deposed king of Northumbria who died in AD830.
Anchor Church is included on the list of Derbyshire Regionally Important Geological Sites, and is also listed as a Local Wildlife Site, with species of note such as the very rare shining pondweed which is a "Red Data List" plant found in the backwater channel below the rocks, and the European Otter.
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