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CITIES & TOWNS page 2
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Hexham
is a small market town half way
between Newcastle (on the East coast) and Carlisle (on the West
coast). It stands at a bridging point of the River Tyne. A monastery
was founded there by St Wilfrid in about AD670; it became a
Cathedral in AD678. The original building was destroyed by the
invading Danes, but rebuilt by the Normans who refounded it as an
abbey. Although the abbey was dissolved during the Reformation in
1537, the abbey church remains and is Hexham's principal place of
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