But surprisingly, there is little sign of Anglo-Saxon heritage in southern England.

Ilchester (Ivelchester) and Ilminster (Ivelminster) from the Anglo-Saxon heritage.

Nevertheless the British embassy did not believe that Britain was being written off as a "negligible" force, nor had the common Anglo-Saxon heritage been totally forgotten.

The first seven stories are set in Paris and have a distinct Francophile flavour, which is a little unusual considering that the book comes from a bastion of Anglo-Saxon heritage like India.

We have a closer relationship with North America, but, like Canada, we have no wish to rejoin our former American colonies as the fifty-first State of the Union, despite our common Anglo-Saxon heritage.

In addition the research revealed surprising new information about Celtic and Anglo-Saxon heritage on the British mainland.

It reminded me again, as did Plum Warner's letter to Edrich, and the story of Drake on Plymouth Hoe, that an important part of our Anglo-Saxon heritage is a sense of proportion.

His eyes, normally as blue and round as an Anglo-Saxon heritage could make them, had gone brown and almond-shaped.

At the same time, the leading group also includes New Zealand, with its Anglo-Saxon heritage, and continental European Switzerland, two nations with different political and state welfare traditions.