Being located to the west of Anglo-Saxon Lundenwic, Thorney's church became known as 'west minster'.

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The premodern tale tellers might also be thought of as descendants of the scops of the Anglo-Saxon Dark Ages or of the griots of West Africa, men whose job it was to carry stories.

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Drive another 50km to the north-west, and you are faced with the bleakest of these three Saxon snapshots.

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