2025-04-14

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2025-04-14 08:04 am

St Dunstan And The Devil

 Yesterday's post was going to be all about the Mayfield Village sign but then as I was prepping the pix I spotted the Spitfire and went off on a whole other tack.

Had I stayed the course I would have posted this close-up of St Dunstan and the Devil.

Dunstan was Archbishop of Canterbury a hundred years before the Norman Conquest and a power in the land. Legends grew up round him. His encounter with the Devil is supposed to have taken place in both Mayfield and Glastonbury. O come on, Glastonbury, you're afloat in myth and legend, let little Mayfield have this one to itself.

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