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| | Sunderland Minster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Actual facts, supported by historical evidence, are sadly thin on the ground and during the period of early Christianity in the Wearmouth area, it is the Monastery of St. Peter on the north side of the river which takes all the glory, so to speak, being well-documented. |
 | | One theory, not widely held, was that the name Bishopwearmouth in fact derived from "Bishop's Wearmouth", the land having been given to Biscop, the founder of St. Peter's, by King Aldfrith of Northumbria in return for gifts from Rome in the year 686. |
 | | There was a later grant, more likely to refer to the area known as South Wearmouth, to the Church of St. Cuthbert from King Egfrid; but he reigned from 830 to 846, nearly 200 years after Biscop. |
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