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BRANDON , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Stowmarket See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Suffolk, See also:England, on the Little See also:Ouse or Brandon See also:river, 861 m. N.N.E. from See also:London by the See also:Ely-See also:Norwich See also:line of the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. (Igor) 2327. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter is See also:Early See also:English with earlier portions; there is a freegrammar school founded in 1646; and the town has some carrying See also:trade by the Little Ouse in See also:corn, See also:coal and See also:timber. See also:Rabbit skins of See also:fine texture are dressed and exported. Extensive deposits of See also:flint are worked in the neighbourhood, and the See also:work of the " flint-knappers " has had its counterpart here from the earliest eras.of See also:man. See also:Close to Brandon, but in See also:Norfolk across the river, at the See also:village of Weeting, are the so-called Grimes' See also:Graves, which, See also:long supposed to show the See also:foundations of a See also:British village, and probably so occupied, were proved by excavation to have been actually See also:neolithic flint workings. The pits, though almost completely filled up (probably as they became exhausted), were sunk through the overlying See also:chalk to the See also:depth of 20 to 6o ft., and numbered 254 in all. Passages branched out from them, and among other remains picks of See also:deer-See also:horn were discovered, one actually bearing in the chalk which coated it the See also:print of the workman's See also:hand.
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