I Used To Wonder

At the age of about ten, I saw, by accident, the fine Cathedral of Winchester, about twenty miles from my own home. Little impression was made on my mind by the sight, other than a sort of a vague idea, that England must have had a different people living in it, in the days when such buildings were raised. At the age of fourteen, or thereabouts, I saw the Cathedral at Salisbury, which strengthened the idea that I had formerly imbibed, that it must have been a very different race of people that inhabited England, in former days.

— WIlliam Cobbett, A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland