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    Leighton Bromswold (also known as Leighton) is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Leighton lies approximately 10 miles (16 km)...
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    the town became known as Leighton Buzzard. The other Leighton became Leighton Bromswold. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Leighton Buzzard and Linslade were...
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    Earl of Darnley, married Theodosia Hyde, 10th Baroness Clifton (of Leighton Bromswold), great-granddaughter of Lord George Stuart, younger son of Esmé Stewart...
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    Baron Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold in the County of Huntingdon, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1608 for Sir Gervase Clifton...
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    Her father was a knight and would become the 1st Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire, England. Her mother was the only child and heiress...
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  • Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1557–58. In 1548 he bought the manor of Leighton Bromswold, Huntingdonshire, which he made his home. He was also given custody...
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    Leighton Bromswold, to found a small community. Herbert raised money (and contributed his own) to restore the neglected church building at Leighton....
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    Hemingford Grey, Hilton, Holme, Holywell, Houghton Keyston, Kings Ripton Leighton Bromswold, Little Paxton Molesworth, Morborne Needingworth Oldhurst, Old Weston...
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    [unreliable source?] she succeeded as the 10th Baroness Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold on 12 February 1713. Baroness Clifton married John Bligh, MP for Athboy...
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    1591, he became a Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, settled in Leighton Bromswold and married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Darcy (a previous Knight...
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  • place that could be Brownshold. What was found was an estate named Leighton Bromswold. This is the closest match to how Grimald describes his home in the...
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  • April 1578 and she was buried in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Leighton Bromswold, where her effigy may be seen together with those of her husband and...
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    with the B663 at Bythorn in Cambridgeshire (junction 15); at the Leighton Bromswold turn a few miles to the east (junction 17); and at the Dockspur Roundabout...
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    in the Domesday Book of 1086. It took its name from the stone at Leighton Bromswold where the area's moot was held. In modern times it was an ecclesiastical...
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  • Kimbolton Kings Ripton Kingston Kirtling Knapwell Kneesworth Landbeach Leighton Bromswold Leverington Linton Litlington Little Abington Little Chishill Little...
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    Hardwick, Haslingfield, Hinxton, Houghton, Huntingdon, Ickleton, Leighton Bromswold, Linton, Little Abington, Longstowe, Mepal, Newton-in-the-Isle, Orton...
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    branches of which were in the 17th century created Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold (1608) and Clifton baronets (1611). It is now the site of a council...
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     1592 – 1637) of Leighton Bromswold, Huntingdonshire, as a consequence of which in 1619 he was created Baron Stuart of Leighton Bromswold and Earl of March...
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    of March (in the peerage of England) (1619) and Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold (in the right of his wife). He had become the 7th Seigneur d'Aubigny...
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  • Hemingford Grey, Hilton, Houghton, Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton, Leighton Bromswold, Little Gidding, Little Stukeley, Lower Dean, Molesworth, Old Hurst...
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    of Leighton Bromswold Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (1661–1723) Catherine O'Brien, suo jure Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold...
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    (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 306–307. "Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold". library2.utm.utoronto.ca. Entry at ThePeerage.com Weiss Gallery...
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  • Cambridge in the 1620s, and from 1626 had a prebendal residence at Leighton Bromswold, close to Little Gidding. He was in the orbit of Ferrar and the community...
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  • he was married to Lady Theodosia Hyde, 10th Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold (1695–1722), a daughter of Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, 3rd Earl...
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    Little Gidding. The format in recent years has been Holy Communion at Leighton Bromswold, followed by dinner. Then the pilgrims walk the five miles to Little...
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    Church Towers of Battersea (1639) Staines (1631), Crondall (1659) and Leighton Bromswold (?c. 1640), Architectural History Vol. 27, Design and Practice in...
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    In 1608 a junior branch of the family was created Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire. The Hall was three stories high. Clifton Grove...
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    first [marriage], in September 1664, was to Mary, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in her own right (bap. 1651, d. 1668)." Cokayne 1910, p. 225, line...
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  • J.J. (1981). "Darcy, Sir Henry (b.c.1539), of Brimham, Yorks. and Leighton Bromswold, Hunts.". In Hasler, P.W. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House...
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  • Duchess of Lennox from her previous marriage and Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in her own right. Both his parents were Catholic. They had married...
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