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Hundreds march through Burford in first Levellers Day festival since pandemic

HUNDREDS of people gathered in the small Oxfordshire town of Burford yesterday for the first in-person celebration of Levellers Day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

The annual gathering of commemoration, music and debates marks the execution of three soldiers in Burford churchyard on May 17 1649, during the English Civil War.

They belonged to a movement popularly known as the Levellers, which campaigned for civil rights and religious tolerance.

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