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Evidence has been found to suggest that prehistoric man lived in the area we now know as England some 700,000 years ago and at that time the English Channel was small enough that the country could be linked with Europe via a bridge. Much later in AD 43, the Romans arrived and via their invasion they helped shape the country dramatically, building roads and fortresses, some of which have managed to survive until today.

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The completion of the Doomsday Book in 1086 created what is now the country’s oldest surviving public records document. Middle Age England saw the country engaged in various fraternisations with France which eventually resulted in the Hundred Years War which lasted from 1337 to 1453. Later in the Middle Ages, came the reformation which saw the power of the Catholic Church replaced by that of the monarchy and the subsequent establishment of the Church of England.

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