If you’re visiting Furness Abbey, or you live locally and haven’t wandered down in a while, there’s now a small Mereland treat waiting for you.
Some exclusive The Mereland Chronicles: The Crier bookmakers are now available in the Abbey Mill Café, just beside the Abbey grounds. If you’re in the area, you can pick up a free bookmark while you’re there.
The café itself is defiantly worth the visit. Set beside the Abbey ruins, it is one of those places where history sits quietly in the background while you warm up with coffee and something sweet. The building and Furness Abbey play a central role in the novel, so it feels fitting that the story now has a small physical presence in the very setting that inspired it.
Along with the bookmarks the café also displays the poster below. The QR code links to an information page regarding the building and its fictional role as a watermill in the novel.
If you’re exploring the area, why not:
- Visit the museum and wander the Abbey ruins.
- Call into the café.
- Grab yourself a free bookmark.
- Take a moment to study the poster.
There is something fitting about stories returning to the places that shaped them.
If you do pop in, let me know. I always enjoy seeing where The Mereland Chronicles travels, especially when it is only a few miles from home.
Paul J. Scribbans — Author 