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Country custom: The Revd Jo King blesses the plough of a farmer, Jonathan Bentall, in the parish of St Mary’s, Chidham, in West Sussex, on Plough Sunday

Country custom: The Revd Jo King blesses the plough of a farmer, Jonathan Bentall, in the parish of St Mary’s, Chidham, in West Sussex, on Plough Sund...

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