The See of Elmham was an

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of the Anglo-Saxon Church. The precise location of the Sees of the Anglo-Saxon period are, as the historian James Campbell put it "thorny questions

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have long vexed the learned." The presence of ancient remains at

North Elmham North Elmham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and is located about north of East Dereham, on the west bank of the River Wensum. Including Gateley, the civil parish had a population of 1,4 ...

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, and South Elmham in

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has led to both sites being championed as the location although neither has remains dating to the seventh century.

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