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of Wessex in the mid-7th century, or the foundation of the "burh" c. 886. There is no proof for suggestions that a convent was founded on the site in 606 nor for the claim that a monastery was founded there by St Swithun in the 9th century.

Saxon and Norman

The earliest reference to the site was in the Domesday Book of 1086, when the "minster"

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