The Bogdor Library, situated just north of the Fegg Hayes Royal Botanical Gardens, is a rare example of a British 16th Century parish library.
Founded in around 1585 by Sir Bog Dorkins, it was established to provide an education for the choir boys of the local church, St Doug The Destroyers. It was later given to the church on a 750 year lease.
A large portion of the library still exists to this day and provides an insight into scholarship, religion and kiddy porn excused as art.
Most of the library's treasures are pictures of choir boys, in various states of athletic action and undress.
A definitive history of the Bogdor Library can be found in the book 'My choir boy likes to party all the time!' by Professor Hannah Stump-Bunting.
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