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    The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross (commonly known as Shrewsbury Abbey) is an ancient foundation in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England...
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    Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury,...
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    Winchester, and Worcester. Shrewsbury Abbey in Shropshire was founded as a Benedictine monastery by the Normans in 1083. Westminster Abbey was founded in the...
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  • on the edge of the town centre, within sight of Shrewsbury Abbey, and stayed 97 years. Shrewsbury's Birmingham League days were mostly mid-table, with...
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  • IV Robert of Shrewsbury (died 1212), English cleric and judge Robert of Shrewsbury (died 1168), abbot of Shrewsbury Abbey Tom Shrewsbury (born 1995),...
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    Shrewsbury Abbey was a railway station in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England part of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway. It was named after the nearby...
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    the cult of St. Winifred by translating her relics from Gwytherin to Shrewsbury Abbey and writing the most influential life of the saint. The chronicler...
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    of Shrewsbury Abbey in the 11th century. These were all broken up in the Reformation, although there is a mention of a grammar school at Shrewsbury in...
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  • was adapted for television in 1996 by Central for ITV. The monks of Shrewsbury Abbey seek the relics of a saint in Wales for their chapel. The locals object...
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    abbots of Shrewsbury run from c 1087, four years after Shrewsbury Abbey's foundation, to 1540, its dissolution under Thomas Cromwell. The abbey was large...
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  • is set in the 12th century in England, mainly at the Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury where Brother Cadfael lives. The titles are from books by Ellis Peters...
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  • to Shrewsbury Abbey is fictionalised in the first chronicle, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and One Corpse Too Many is inspired by the siege of Shrewsbury Castle...
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    Robert of Shrewsbury (died 1168) or Robertus Salopiensis was a Benedictine monk, prior and later abbot of Shrewsbury Abbey, and a noted hagiographer. Robert...
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  • Shrewsbury Abbey, according to Eyton, noted in the Haughmond Abbey history ("After William FitzAlan (I), who left his body for burial in Shrewsbury Abbey")...
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    the British Library. Shrewsbury Abbey features in The Cadfael Chronicles; Brother Cadfael is a member of the community at the Abbey. The poet A. E. Housman...
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  • himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in Shrewsbury, western England, in the first half of the 12th...
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    as Shrewsbury General and is the only remaining railway station in the town; others, including Shrewsbury Abbey, have long since closed. Shrewsbury railway...
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  • extensively, mainly from Abbey to Abbey. First, Herluin and his party walk from Ramsey Abbey. Abbot Radfulfus of Shrewsbury Abbey gives them horses for their...
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    November 2010 under the West Midlands Resignalling scheme. Towards Shrewsbury, Abbey Foregate signal box takes over for the last few miles beyond Wellington...
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  • (sculptors husband-and-wife Paul and Ruth de Monchaux) in the grounds of Shrewsbury Abbey (in whose parish his family settled) to mark his birth centenary in...
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  • first Earl of Shrewsbury, and in 1074 began building a castle where the present Shrewsbury Castle is now, as well as founding the Abbey (1083). The castle...
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  • 1138, Abbot Heribert of Shrewsbury Abbey is summoned to a Legatine council in London and his authority is suspended. The Abbey's business is also postponed...
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  • King Stephen takes Shrewsbury Castle and hangs all of the surviving defenders. Cadfael, a Benedictine monk of the nearby Shrewsbury Abbey discovers a murdered...
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    Its line ran from Shrewsbury (Abbey Foregate station, not to be confused with Abbey station, also in Shrewsbury) to Wellington. Abbey Foregate also acted...
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  • in 1994. When a rebellion arises in the south, Cadfael leaves the Shrewsbury Abbey cloister to save two who are dear to him. One is the son he has not...
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  • first snowstorms of winter sweep the countryside, Brother Cadfael of Shrewsbury Abbey goes to the Benedictine Priory at Bromfield near Ludlow to treat a...
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    Haughmond Abbey (locally /ˈhoʊmənd/ HOR-mənd) is a ruined, medieval, Augustinian monastery a few miles from Shrewsbury, England. It was probably founded...
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  • Railways, served from Oswestry via Blodwell Junction. Shrewsbury Abbey; closed 6 November 1933; Shrewsbury West; closed 6 November 1933; Meole Brace; closed...
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    Cadfael medieval mysteries, featuring a Benedictine monk at the Abbey in Shrewsbury. That pseudonym was drawn from the name of her brother, Ellis, and...
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  • are announced to Shrewsbury. Blund has left England already. Giffard reports that Ninian Bachiler is known as Benet in Shrewsbury Abbey, and that Giffard...
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