Photos of Escomb Saxon Church - preaching cross

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Canute and his Danes defeated British forces under Edmund Ironside on 18 October, 1016

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12 February, 1554

Lady Jane Grey executed

Grey became famous as the 'Nine Days Queen', a pawn in the ambitions of the Earl of Northumberland

This king was the son of Richard, Duke of York, and a leader of the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses

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