17 June is the feast of St Botolph, religious leader in 7th-century East Anglia, patron of travellers and namesake of the town of Boston.
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Botolph founded a minster in 654 at 'Icanho', Iken on the Suffolk coast, which is evocatively described here: http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/iken.html
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@ClerkofOxford Although Leland thought that Icanho was at Lincoln, of course...! ;) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4YKrpH222eYC&pg=PA279&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@ClerkofOxford (Also, St Botolph's church, Lincoln, looks like could have had considerable early importance too...! http://www.heritageconnectlincoln.com/lara-raz/st-botolph/1025 …)
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