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Date: 02 Jun 2025 13:25:11 GMT
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From the «needs more AI» department:
Title: Clock Still Keeping Village on Time After 500 Years
Author: admin@soylentnews.org
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:48:00 +0000
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/06/01/159251&from=rss

owl[1] writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz70p0qevlro[2]

Villagers have been celebrating the 500th birthday of the clock in their
parish church.

The timepiece in East Hendred, near Wantage in rural Oxfordshire, is believed
to be one of the oldest clocks in Britain still in its original location.

With no clock face or hands, it relies on the church bells in the tower at St
Augustine's to ring out the time every quarter hour.

The decision to install it in the church was taken when Henry VIII was on the
throne, explained the man responsible for St Augustine's bells, Tower Captain
Nigel Findley.

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