Wells — England’s Smallest City
Not far from Glastonbury, at the foot of the Mendip Hills, is Wells, England’s smallest city. What makes a city? One characteristic is the presence of a Cathedral. And Wells has a magnificent one known as the “most poetic of English cathedrals.” Named after the four natural wells that bubble out of the ground near Bishop’s Palace, Wells has been a place of worship for millennia, long before Christianity. But it was the construction of the Cathedral (officially known as…