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2. St Giles' Church, Cambridge - Wikipedia

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   St Giles' Church was founded in 1092 by an endowment from Hugolina de Gernon, the wife of Picot of Cambridge, baron of Bourn and county sheriff. [5] According to the 12th-century writings of Alfred of Beverley, Hugolina, who had been suffering from a long illness which the king's physician and other doctors had been unable to treat, had prayed to Saint Giles on her death bed promising to build ...

3. List of churches in Cambridge - Wikipedia

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   The parish became depopulated after the Black Death and was united with St Giles in 1365. The church became dilapidated, with its ruins still noted on a map in 1635. [122] St John Zachary Before 1207 c. 1446 Parish church destroyed to make way for King's College Chapel. It was rebuilt nearby in 1458, but was last recorded in 1488, by when its ...

4. Category : Grade II* listed churches in Cambridgeshire

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   C. Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge; Little St Mary's, Cambridge; St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge; St Giles' Church, Cambridge; St Peter's Church, Cambridge; St Clement's Church, Cambridge; Church of St Andrew and St Mary, Grantchester

5. The Vache - Wikipedia

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   The leader was an ex-Commando, John Mann, of Chalfont St. Giles, who had been sharing a small cottage with his wife, his five-year-old son, and ten strangers. At the local pub one night, Mann heard a Polish captain say that a deserted army camp at nearby Vache Park was being readied for Polish soldiers of General Władysław Anders 's army in ...

6. Ascension Parish Burial Ground - Wikipedia

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   Although a Church of England site, the cemetery includes the graves of many non-conformists, reflecting the demographics of the parish in the 19th and 20th centuries, which covered much of West Cambridge. [1] It was established in 1857 while the city of Cambridge was undergoing rapid expansion, although the first burial was not until 1869. [1]

7. Category : Church of England church buildings in Cambridge

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8. Chalfont St Giles - Wikipedia

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   Chalfont St Giles has hosted numerous Beer Festivals that take place on the village green, with the most notable being in 2014 when DJ Brandon Block hosted a set. [33] In May 2023, Chalfont St Giles hosted a street party to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. The event hosted thousands of people, with live music, barbeques, pop-up ...

9. Milton's Cottage - Wikipedia

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   Milton's friend Thomas Ellwood called the cottage "that pretty box in St. Giles". The ground floor of the cottage is now a museum dedicated to Milton and his works. The four museum rooms contain the most extensive collection in the world on open display of 17th-century first editions of John Milton's works, both poetry and prose.