In 2015, a C.T. scan revealed the mummified remains of a monk inside a thousand-year-old Buddha statue. Researchers brought the statue from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands to the Meander ...

The wooden statue of the Abingdon monk has been situated on the Marcham roundabout for more than 20 years. Mayor Andy Foulsham said the well-known landmark was originally erected as part of a ...