Religion
St. Everilda's Church is at the end of Church Lane and to have origins as early as the 7th century. The stained glass in the eastern window and in one of the windows in the south aisle is of late 13th century and early 14th century. St Everilda's Church is named after a 7th-century Saxon saint. It is one of only two churches in the United Kingdom dedicated to this saint. The other is at Everingham some twenty miles to the south-east in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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