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East Sussex is a county in South East ___MASK56___ . It is bordered by the counties of Kent to the north and east , Surrey to the north west and West Sussex to the west , and to the south by the English Channel . Anglo - Saxon paganism , sometimes termed Anglo - Saxon heathenism , Anglo - Saxon pre - Christian religion , or Anglo - Saxon traditional religion , refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo - Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD , during the initial period of Early Medieval ___MASK56___ . A variant of the Germanic paganism found across much of north - western Europe , it encompassed a heterogeneous variety of disparate beliefs and cultic practices , with much regional variation . Shropshire ( or ; alternatively Salop ; abbreviated , in print only , Shrops ; demonym Salopian ) is a county located between West Midlands in ___MASK56___ and ___MASK86___ . It borders Powys and Wrexham in ___MASK86___ to the west and north - west , Cheshire to the north , Staffordshire to the east , Worcestershire to the south - east and Herefordshire to the south . Shropshire Council was created in 2009 , a unitary authority taking over from the previous county council and five district councils . The borough of Telford and Wrekin has been a separate unitary authority since 1998 but continues to be included in the ceremonial county . Minster - in - Thanet , also known as Minster , is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent , ___MASK56___ . The village is situated to the west of Ramsgate and to the north east of Canterbury ; it lies just south west of Kent International Airport and just north of the River Stour . Minster is also the " ancient capital of Thanet ". At the 2011 Census the hamlet of Ebbsfleet was included . ___MASK26___ ( Latin : " Gallia ") was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age that was inhabited by Celtic tribes , encompassing present day France , Luxembourg , Belgium , most of Switzerland , Northern Italy , as well as the parts of the Netherlands , Central Italy and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine . It covered an area of 190 , 800 mi² or 494 , 169 km² . According to the testimony of Julius Caesar , ___MASK26___ was divided into three parts : Gallia Celtica , Belgica and Aquitania . Archaeologically , the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture , which extended across all of ___MASK26___ , as well as east to Raetia , Noricum , Pannonia and southwestern Germania during the 5th to 1st centuries BC . During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC , ___MASK26___ fell under Roman rule : Gallia Cisalpina was conquered in 203 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC . ___MASK26___ was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons , who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC . Julius Caesar finally subdued the remaining parts of ___MASK26___ in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC . Eastern Christianity consists of four main church families : the Eastern Orthodox Church , the Oriental Orthodox Churches , and the Assyrian Church of the East , as well as the Eastern Catholic Churches ( that are in communion with Rome but still maintain an Eastern liturgy ). The term is used in contrast with Western Christianity ( namely the Latin Church and Protestanism ). Eastern Christianity consists of the Christian traditions and churches that developed in the Middle East , Africa , Eastern Europe , Asia Minor , the Balkans , Southern ___MASK21___ and parts of the Far East over several centuries . The term does not describe a single communion or religious denomination . Some Eastern churches have more in common historically and theologically with Western Christianity than with one another . The various Eastern churches do not normally refer to themselves as " Eastern ", with the exception of the Assyrian Church of the East and its offshoots . Merewalh ( sometimes given as Merwal or Merewald was a sub - king of the Magonsæte , a western cadet ___MASK22___ thought to have been located in Herefordshire and Shropshire . Merewalh is thought to have lived in the mid to late 7th century , having acceded the throne during the time of Penda of Mercia , who , the " Anglo - Saxon Chronicle " implies , was his father : Kent is a county in South East ___MASK56___ and one of the home counties . It borders Greater London to the north west , Surrey to the west , East Sussex to the south west , and Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north . The county town is Maidstone . A double monastery ( also double house ) is a monastery combining a separate community of monks and one of nuns , joined in one institution . More common in the monasticism of Eastern Christianity , where they are found since the 4th century , in the West the establishment of double monasteries became popular after Columbanus and were found in Anglo - Saxon ___MASK56___ and Gaul . Double monasteries were forbidden by the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 , though it took many years for the decree to be enforced . In a significantly different way , double monasteries were revived again after the 12th century , when a number of religious houses were established on this pattern , among Benedictines and possibly the Dominicans . The 14th - century Bridgittines were consciously founded using this form of community . ___MASK56___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and ___MASK86___ to the west . The Irish Sea lies northwest of ___MASK56___ and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest . ___MASK56___ is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo - Saxons . The original manuscript of the " Chronicle " was created late in the 9th century , probably in Wessex , during the reign of Alfred the Great . Multiple copies were made of that one original and then distributed to monasteries across ___MASK56___ , where they were independently updated . In one case , the " Chronicle " was still being actively updated in 1154 . Thanet is a local government district of Kent , ___MASK56___ , which was formed under the Local Government Act 1972 , and came into being on 1 April 1974 . The Isle of Thanet makes up the major part of the District . Maidstone is the county town of Kent , ___MASK56___ , south - east of London . The River Medway runs through the centre of the town , linking it with Rochester and the Thames Estuary . Historically , the river was a source and route for much of the town ' s trade as the centre of the agricultural county of Kent , known as the Garden of ___MASK56___ . There is evidence of a settlement in the area dating back to before the Stone Age . Columbanus ( 543  21 November 615 ), also known as St . Columban , was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms , most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present - day ___MASK99___ and Bobbio Abbey in present - day Italy . He is remembered as a key figure in the Hiberno - Scottish mission , or Irish missionary activity in early medieval Europe . In recent years , however , as Columbanus ' s deeds and legacy have come to be re - examined by historians , the traditional narrative of his career has been challenged and doubts have been raised regarding his actual involvement in missionary work and the extent to which he was driven by purely religious motives or also by a concern for playing an active part in politics and church politics in ___MASK37___ . Surrey is a county in the south east of ___MASK56___ and also one of the home counties bordering Greater London . Surrey shares borders with Kent to the east , East Sussex to the south - east , West Sussex to the south , Hampshire to the west and south - west and Berkshire to the north - west . The county town is Guildford . Surrey County Council sits extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames , administered as part of Greater London since 1965 . With a resident population of 1 . 1 million , Surrey is the most densely populated and third most populated county in the South East region , after Kent and Hampshire . Justus ( sometimes Iustus ; died on 10 November between 627 and 631 ) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury . He was sent from ___MASK29___ to ___MASK56___ by Pope Gregory the Great , on a mission to Christianize the Anglo - Saxons from their native paganism , probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601 . Justus became the first Bishop of Rochester in 604 , and attended a church council in Paris in 614 . Sussex ( abbreviated Sx ), from the Old English " Sþsaxe " ( South Saxons ), is a historic county in South East ___MASK56___ corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex . It is bounded to the west by Hampshire , north by Surrey , north - east by Kent , south by the English Channel , and divided for local government into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove . Brighton and Hove was created as a unitary authority in 1997 , and granted City status in 2000 . Until then , Chichester was Sussex ' s only city . The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea , in the south - east of ___MASK18___ . Saint Eanswith ( born c . 614 , Kent , ___MASK56___ . Died c . 640 , Folkestone , ___MASK56___ ), also spelled Eanswythe or Eanswide , was an Anglo Saxon princess . Canterbury (, or ) is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site , which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury , a local government district of Kent , ___MASK56___ . It lies on the River Stour . Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent , ___MASK56___ . It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century . In 2001 it had a population of around 40 , 000 . Ramsgate  s main attraction is its coastline , and its main industries are tourism and fishing . The town has one of the largest marinas on the English south coast , and the Port of Ramsgate has provided cross - channel ferries for many years . Eadbald was King of Kent from 616 until his death in 640 . He was the son of King Æthelberht and his wife Bertha , a daughter of the Merovingian king Charibert . Æthelberht made Kent the dominant force in ___MASK56___ during his reign and became the first Anglo - Saxon king to convert to Christianity from Anglo - Saxon paganism . Eadbald ' s accession was a significant setback for the growth of the church , since he retained his indigenous paganism and did not convert to Christianity for at least a year , and perhaps for as much as eight years . He was ultimately converted by either Laurentius or Justus , and separated from his first wife , who had been his stepmother , at the insistence of the church . Eadbald ' s second wife was Emma , who may have been a Frankish princess . She bore him two sons , Eormenred and Eorcenberht , and a daughter , Eanswith . The kingdom of the Kentish , today referred to as the ___MASK48___ , was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England . Establishing itself in either the fifth or sixth centuries CE , it continued to exist until being fully absorbed into the Kingdom of England in the tenth century . The City of Canterbury ( or ) is a local government district with city status in Kent , ___MASK56___ . The main settlement in the district is Canterbury . The home counties are the counties of ___MASK56___ that surround London ( although several of them do not border it ). The counties generally included in the list are Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Essex , Hertfordshire , Kent , Surrey , and Sussex . Other counties more distant from London  such as Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire , Hampshire and Oxfordshire  are also sometimes regarded as home counties due to their proximity to London and their connection to the London regional economy . A saint , also historically known as a hallow , is a term used for a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness to God . Depending on the context and denomination , the term also retains its original Christian meaning , as any believer who is " in Christ " and in whom Christ dwells , whether in Heaven or on ___MASK40___ . In Anglican , Roman Catholic , Eastern Orthodox , Lutheran , and Oriental Orthodox doctrine , all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints , but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation ; official ecclesiastical recognition , and consequently veneration , is given to some saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church . Saints Æthelred and Æthelberht ( also " Ethelred ", " Ethelbert ") according to the Kentish royal legend ( attested in the 11th century ) were princes of the ___MASK48___ who were murdered in around AD 669 , and later commemorated as saints and martyrs . Their story forms an important element in the legend of Saint Mildrith , because the monastery of Minster in Thanet is said to have been founded in atonement for the crime . South East ___MASK56___ is the most populous of the nine official regions of ___MASK56___ at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes . It consists of Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , East Sussex , Hampshire , the Isle of Wight , Kent , Oxfordshire , Surrey and West Sussex . As with the other regions of ___MASK56___ , apart from Greater London , the south east has no elected government . Magonsæte was a minor sub - kingdom of the greater Anglo - Saxon ___MASK22___ , thought to be coterminous with the Diocese of Hereford . Domne Eafe ( also Domneva , Domne Éue , Æbbe , Ebba ; floruit late 7th century ) was , according to the Kentish royal legend , a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery at Minster - in - Thanet during the reign of her cousin King Ecgberht of Kent . A 1000 - year - old confusion with her sister Eormenburg means she is often now known by that name . Married to Merewalh of Mercia , she had at least four children . When her two brothers , Æthelred and Æthelberht , were murdered ( and subsequently venerated as saintly martyrs ) she obtained the land in Thanet to build an abbey , from a repentant King Ecgberht . Her three daughters all went on to become Abbesses and saints , the most famous of which , Mildrith , ended up with a shrine in St Augustine ' s Abbey , Canterbury .