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Shermanbury's Saxon name indicates its past function: the burh or defended stronghold of the scirman - shire man, perhaps the sheriff, but maybe some other official or steward. It has been suggested that the burh was the stronghold of one of the Saxon longitudinal divisions of the county. The abrupt
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