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MARGARET (ST.), or STREET, a hamlet in Ivinghoe parish, Bucks; on Icknield-street, 1 mile NW of Great Gaddesden, and 6 SE of Ivinghoe. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in 1160, by Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Ivinghoe CP/AP Buckinghamshire AncC |
Place names: | MARGARET ST | MARGARET ST OR STREET | ST MARGARET | STREET |
Place: | St Margarets |
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