BlueÆther

and wtf do Emu’s have to do with either the UK of NZ

Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.

/me tries to understand that comment and fails

to be fair it wasn’t the complete church, it was rebuilt in part in the mid 1700s

<Edit> it looks like the church is mostly intact from the very early 1300’s (first vicar 1309) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cuthbert’s_Church,_Darlington.

NZ was first settled about (current data) 1320-1350 (the earliest date that I’ve seen is about 1280)

Lived in the UK for a while - Squirrels, and the fact that the church in the town we lived in was built before ANY humans set foot in New Zealand