Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Church of England?

Interesting facts-  There are a number of Welsh churches in the Church of England.  I believe this is not true of the English/Scottish border.

Examples I discovered from my research on the Wye Valley  are :-

C of E parishes actually in Wales
Old Radnor and Kinnerton,
Presteigne and Discoed
Kington
Trelystan

For 186 years Calais was a part of England.  The enclave sent two MP's to parliament. However the Calais tourist board website says this was 'not really England'.  For one it was originally part of Flanders and the people spoke Dutch, and two, the church was always part of a french diocese.)

With the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360, Guînes, Marck and Calais jointly known as "Pale of Calais" was unofficially allotted to the English and only partly put into practice. In 1363 it became an important port and in 1372 became a constituency of the Parliament of England. But it did kept its bonding with France as it still was a part of the diocese of Thérouanne.

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