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    St Helen's Church is a Church of England parish church in Abingdon on the bank of the River Thames in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), England. The church...
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  • St Helen's Church or Church of St Helen may refer to the following churches in England: St Helen's Church, Abingdon, Oxfordshire St Helen's Church, Ainderby...
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    St. Helen and St. Katharine is a private girls' day school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. St Helen's School, Abingdon was founded in 1903 by the Community of...
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  • boys were expelled after they refused to attend Anglican services at St Helen's church. The school experienced a successful period during the 18th century...
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    ecclesiastical parish of Abingdon. For civil purposes the parish joined Abingdon St Helen's to form the civil parish of Abingdon in 1894. Hoiberg, Dale...
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    craft fair. St. Nicolas' Church, parts of which were built in 1180, is near the museum. Abingdon Bridge over the Thames, near St Helen's Church, was built...
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    church. Apparent ruins in the Abbey Gardens are Trendell's Folly, built in the nineteenth century. Some of the stones may come from St Helen's Church...
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    Edmund of Abingdon (also known as Edmund Rich, St Edmund of Canterbury, Edmund of Pontigny, French: St Edme; c. 1174 – 1240) was an English-born prelate...
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  • Nicholas's Church, Guisborough St Nicholas Church, Nottingham, Nottingham St Nicholas Church, Littleborough St Nicolas Church, Abingdon (formerly within...
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    parish of St Helen's, Abingdon, and was held by Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution in 1538. The Church of England parish church of Saint Helen is a 13th-century-style...
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  • "cattle-shed". It was a manor in the large parish of St Helen's, Abingdon, and was held by Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution in 1538. It was then acquired...
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  • St Helen's School in Abingdon in 1903. In 1938, St Helen's merged with the school of St Katharine in Wantage to become the School of St Helen and St Katharine...
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    Henry Langley (Master of Pembroke) (category People educated at Abingdon School)
    about 10 September 1679, and was buried in St. Helen's Church, Abingdon. List of Old Abingdonians Hinde/St John Parker, Thomas/Michael (1977). The Martlet...
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    Henry Bright (schoolmaster, born 1724) (category Heads of Abingdon School)
    schools published in 1783. He held the following church livings: Preacher at St Helen's Church, Abingdon and Marcham, Berkshire (1758) Curate of Waldron...
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    Abingdon (west of Abingdon School) in the 1860s on the site of the former Conduit Field. The current charity is based at St Helen's Wharf in Abingdon...
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    sculler. Abingdon Head is raced on a 2 km upstream course on the River Thames stretch from Culham reach to the St. Helen's church in Abingdon. The start...
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  • Helenstowe Nunnery (category Abingdon-on-Thames)
    believed to have stood on the site of St Helen's Church. Ford, David Nash (2010). "Abingdon: St. Helen's Church". Royal Berkshire History. Retrieved 7...
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    1965. He retired from the RAF in 1969 and became Vicar and Rural Dean of Abingdon. Payton died at Ladder Hill, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire at the age of...
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  • Bicester St Edmund's RC Primary School, Abingdon-on-Thames St Francis Church of England Primary School, Cowley St Frideswide CE Primary School, Oxford St James...
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    in a single benefice with St. Helen's, Dry Sandford in 2000. but once again became a single parish benefice in the Abingdon Deanery in 2018. The sculptor...
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    St Helen's Church Berrick Salome Archived 16 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine, History page, Accessed 20 May 2013 Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell...
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    since 1974. The town is on Letcombe Brook, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Abingdon, 24 miles (39 km) north-west of Reading, 15 miles (24 km) south-west of...
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  • Andrew Archer at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Tanworth-in-Arden (1778) Monument to Mrs Hawkins in St Helen's Church in Abingdon-on-Thames (1780) Monument...
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    a village and civil parish on the River Thames 2 miles (3 km) south of Abingdon-on-Thames and 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Didcot. Historically part of...
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    long running almost east–west through the village linking St Michael's church with the Abingdon – Newbury main road. The south side of the Causeway is lined...
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    for undergraduate degrees if aged 21 years or older. Named after St Edmund of Abingdon (1175–1240), who was the first known Oxford Master of Arts and Archbishop...
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    village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of the centre of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Lower Radley on the River...
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    the United Kingdom dedicated to a Saint Helen. She is also the patron saint of Abingdon and Colchester. St Helen's Chapel in Colchester was believed to have...
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    Cranley, died in Faringdon while journeying to London. The Church of England parish church of All Saints may date from the 12th century, and the clerestory...
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    William Newcome (category People from Abingdon-on-Thames)
    Newcome was born at Abingdon, Berkshire, on 10 April 1729. He was the second son of Joseph Newcome, vicar of St Helen's Church, Abingdon, rector of Barton-in-the-Clay...
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