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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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St Albans
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(80,000 in 1991)
City in Hertfordshire, on the other side of the river Ver from the Roman site of *Verulamium. The cathedral (11–14C) is the church of a *Benedictine abbey, founded in the 8C on the hill where St *Alban was believed to have been martyred. The church was in a dilapidated state by 1877, when it was heavily restored to become the cathedral of a new diocese covering Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
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