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The name is from the Saxon meaning ‘A place of the people of Baeda’ and is an ancient parish mentioned in the Domesday Book as mostly belonging to the King, but in Saxon times to Hagan, a nephew of Harold.
The parish lies in pleasant, open and gentle countryside little changed from 1066 that Rider Haggard, who owned a farm here, writing in 1901 thought Hagan would still recognise it.
The fine round towered church is so spacious and light. It has a Saxon tower and tower arch while the rest is largely 13th century. In the east window of the north aisle and there are other great stained glass panels. The size and beauty of St Andrew’s almost certainly owes much to the fact that in 1226 Hubert de Burgh granted it to the Priory of Our Lady at Walsingham, one of the richest in Europe.
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