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No-one can live in Sherborne for long without becoming aware of Walter Raleigh. He has not only entered into the mythology of England's heroes; his presence broods over the New Castle and, in the Abbey, St Katherine's Chapel, where he had his pew.

For many of us, the standard work remains Robert Lacey's Sir Walter Raleigh (1975), perhaps fleshed out by Sherborne's own Reg Wood in his historical novel Gold was his star…