Original sentence: Despite the Viking settlement, Northumbrian Angles remained major land owners along the banks of the Tees in Viking times.Feeling slighted, the family immediately set about building themselves a house on their land with a 40 foot column erected next to the churchyard so it towered over the trees and pointed a huge V-sign in stone towards the church authorities.In 1904, the family of a deceased Joseph Edleston owned a plot of land next to the churchyard of St.It is located half way between Barnard Castle and Darlington, near Winston, at OS map reference NZ 1716.The Edleston Spite House still is standing and occupied and has MCMIV (1904) over the front door.The children asked to erect a monument in the churchyard in memory of Joseph's 41 year tenure at the church.The church refused permission, asserting that the churchyard was full but that the family could donate their land to the church and then build a monument on part it.The village church of St Mary's, Gainford stands on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery built by Bishop Ecgred of Lindisfarne in the early 9th century
Edited sentence: Despite the Viking settlement, Northumbrian Angles remained major landowners along the banks of the Tees in Viking times.Feeling slighted, the family immediately set about building themselves a house on their land with a 40-foot column erected next to the churchyard so it towered over the trees and pointed a huge V-sign in stone towards the church authorities.In 1904 the family of a deceased Joseph Edleston owned a plot of land next to the churchyard of St.It is half-way between Barnard Castle and Darlington, near Winston, at OS map reference NZ 1716.The Edleston Spite House is still standing and occupied and has MCMIV (1904) over the front door.The children asked to erect a monument in the churchyard in memory of Joseph's 41-year tenure at the church.The church refused permission, asserting that the churchyard was full, but that the family could donate their land to the church and then build a monument on part of it.The village church of St Mary's, Gainford, stands on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery built by Bishop Ecgred of Lindisfarne in the early 9th century