This Atlas Obscura article features the village sign of Babingley in East Anglia, which is surmounted by a beaver in the robes of a bishop.

St Felix (of Burgundy, but the AO article doesn’t say) arrived in 615 CE to convert the East Angles to Christianity. He was making for the East Anglian capital of Rendlesham, but (as legend has it) he was washed ashore at Babingley, his life purportedly saved by a colony of beavers. In gratitude he consecrated bishop one of the beavers.

It strikes me the tale is a wry comment on the likely success of converting the fiercely heathen Angles in the first place.