Thatcham
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Thatcham is a market town and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. It is situated in the valley of the River Kennet 3 miles east of Newbury, 14 miles west of Reading and 54 miles west of London. T
Thatcham town centre
Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, erected around 1304
St Mary's church
Station Road during flooding
Thomas Becket
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Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket, was an English cleric and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then as Ar
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…exists of Bronze and Iron Age settlements and of Romano-British activity. The town had a period of great prosperity around 1304, when the Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr on the A4, now called the Old Bluecoat School, was granted permission to hold services. At that time the population was larger than that of Newbury…
Thomas Becket from the Collectio Epistolarum Sancti Thome Cantuariensis, c. 1180
Plaque marking Becket's birthplace on Cheapside in London
14th-century depiction of Becket at centre with King Henry II at left
A Seal of the Abbot of Arbroath, showing the murder of Becket. Arbroath Abbey was founded 8 years after the death of St Thomas and dedicated to him; it became the wealthiest abbey in Scotland.