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    1538, Elstow Abbey was valued as being the eighth richest nunnery in England. On 26 August 1539, the Abbess surrendered the Abbey, the manor of Elstow and...
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    Elstow Abbey was a monastery for Benedictine nuns in Elstow, Bedfordshire, England. It was founded c.1075 by Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of...
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    Southampton, Norwich City, Watford, Sunderland, Wootton Blue Cross and Elstow Abbey. He plays as a defender. Davenport joined Coventry City as a trainee...
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  • estates. Included in them were the manors of Elstow and Kempston in Bedfordshire. Judith founded Elstow Abbey in around 1078, as a Benedictine nunnery, possibly...
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    The building was originally commissioned as a market hall to serve Elstow Abbey. It was designed in the Tudor style, built in timber frame in-filled...
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    impressed by, Elstow Place — a grand mansion behind Elstow Church, built for Sir Thomas Hillersden from the cloister buildings of Elstow Abbey. The "Valley...
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    memorial windows in Westminster Abbey, Southwark Cathedral and various churches, including Elstow Abbey (the parish church of Elstow) and the Bunyan Meeting Free...
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    BEDFORD (see below) Chicksands Priory Dunstable Friary Dunstable Priory Elstow Abbey Grovebury Priory Hardwick Preceptory Harrold Priory Leighton Buzzard...
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    of the Augustinian priory at Dunstable, serving as the parish church; Elstow Abbey near Bedford, which belonged to a Benedictine nunnery founded by Judith...
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    also won the Bedfordshire Senior Trophy that season after defeating Elstow Abbey 6–0 in the final on 20 April 2023. Despite starting his career as a winger...
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  • Flitwick Town Dunton Reserves Meltis Sports 2003–04 Elstow Abbey Turvey Biggleswade United 'A' Elstow Abbey Reserves Ickwell & Old Warden Reserves 2004–05...
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  • (1962–1963) restoration of Bath Assembly Rooms (completed 1963) works at Elstow Abbey, Bedford works at Harlington Manor (formerly Harlington House), Harlington...
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    22 March 2012 Historic England, "Parish Church of St Mary and St Helena, Elstow (1114168)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 11 March 2012...
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  • Hasler, 1981 Spencer Robert Wigram & M. J. Buckley, Chronicles of the Abbey of Elstow (Oxford, 1885), pp. 178-180. Edward Walford, Chapters from Family Chests...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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  • Town Reserves Dunstable United Eaton Bray Eaton Bray United Electrolux Elstow Abbey Emberton Esavian Sports Eynesbury Rovers Flamstead Flitwick Athletic...
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    were appointed to Great Wymondley from 1361, the church remained under Elstow Abbey until the Dissolution. The benefice is currently St Ippolyts with Great...
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  • married John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos, and Barbara Grey, a nun at Elstow Abbey. Florence Hastings married secondly Richard Brett, gentleman, of Bletchley...
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  • Elstow is a civil parish in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. It contains 31 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England...
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  • Dunstable Dunton Denton East Hyde Eastcotts Eaton Bray Edworth Eggington Elstow Eversholt Everton Eyeworth Fairfield Fancott Farndish Felmersham Flitton...
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    (Church of St Mary the Virgin) 1114802 More images Hillersdon Mansion Elstow Abbey 14th century 7 May 1952 TL0493047363 52°06′53″N 0°28′09″W / 52.114643°N...
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  • the death of his mother, he had given Godington church to the nuns of Elstow Abbey, but by 1221 tried to reclaim it. A lawsuit next year resulted in him...
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    rectory of Westoning was transferred by the Crown from the Nunnery at Elstow Abbey to Thomas Hungate and Simon Aynesworth in 1550. Until the beginning of...
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  • United F.C. U23 Caldecote Cranfield United F.C. Crawley Green Reserves Elstow Abbey Flitwick Town F.C. Marston Shelton Rovers Queens Park Crescents Riseley...
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    Benedictine Elstow Abbey in Bedfordshire disputed with a later Richard de Camville which one of them held the advowson of the parish. The Abbey won, and...
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    Hugh of Beauchamp, Countess Judith (Judith of Lens) who founded nearby Elstow Abbey in 1078, Walter of Flanders, Richard Poynant, William of Cairon and Alric...
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  • Cranfield Court (demolished 1934) Eaton Manor Edworth Manor Eggington House Elstow Moot Hall Flitwick Manor Goldington Bury (demolished 1964) Harlington Manor...
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  • 1508/9–13 August 1566) of Elstow, Bedfordshire, who married Isabel Harvey, daughter and heir of Edmund Harvey of Elstow and Margaret Wentworth, by whom...
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    unconnected with the explosives industry. For example, Joseph Lyons & Co ran ROF Elstow throughout the war. Other filling factories were run by Imperial Tobacco...
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    industries located to the Cauldwell area, including Bedford Igranic on Elstow Road. The Britannia Iron Works were opened on Kempston Road in 1859, and...
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