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| | EURSOC: County Life |
 | | Winchcombeshire, England's smallest former county, is celebrating its 1,000th birthday on 7 May. While it only lasted ten years as a county, the area has once again been in the public eye. |
 | | Founded in 1007 by Ethelred the Unready, Winchcombeshire was abolished only ten years later by King Cnut and distributed into Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. |
 | | Mrs Clare Pritchard, 59, an IT worker, and one of the 5,000 residents of what used to be the county, is organising the peal of bells from the 66 churches she has identified within the historic boundary. |
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