Saxon Church
A church was built on the site during the Saxon period using material "robbed out" from the ruined Roman fort at Watercrook to the south of the town. A record in the Domesday Book, and the shaft of an Anglian Cross, housed in the Parr Chapel are dated at approximately AD 850.
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