Superlatives usually live in a book. These three are places you can stand in — a church that seats thirty-nine at a push, a pine that started growing in 1560, and a beach whose distinction is how little was ever built on it.
England's smallest parish church, seating 39 under beams said to be Viking
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A 110-foot pine that germinated sixty years before Plymouth Rock
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Eleven kilometres of empty sand, and the resort that never opened
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