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Dispatch dated 14th July 2003
Well, it came to pass ( see final item of 10/06/03 dispatch below ). At 10.15 on the scorchingly hot day of Sunday 13th July in the Year of Our Lord 2003, there was held the last regular act of worship at St Francis' Church, Littleton. Present were a congregation of 8, including the author ( who is NOT an Anglican ). All was concluded by 11.30, the Church was locked up and ... institutional Christianity retreated from the tiny hamlet of Littleton. A melancholy occasion to be 'privileged' to see. 'Wulfwy the hunter' lived in Littleton, circa 1080 A.D. In the Norman's 'Doomsday Book' tally of their loot, he is recorded as about the only English person in Surrey to keep his land post Conquest. I dedicated my first book of collected Binscombe Tales', 'Sinister Saxon Stories', to him - as 'a figure of hope' ...
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