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Hadrian’s Wall Wessex Mercia Danelaw Northumbria Essex Sussex Deira Soke of Peterborough Lindsey Middle Anglia

England

constituent unit, United Kingdom

Cumbria: Kentmere Valley

Cumbria

county, England, United Kingdom

Northumbria

Northumbria

historical kingdom, England

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Boucher, Jonathan

Jonathan Boucher

English clergyman