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A Close Shave for a Mediaeval Monk
The tiny village of Ockham is located about 7 miles north east of the Guildford in southern England. Its history is largely agricultural and it currently boasts a population of just under 400, probably not much different to the Ockham of the middle ages when Ockham was home to its most famous son, William of Occam (mediaeval spelling […]