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• Oxfordshire
  Additionally, part of [[Reading]], otherwise in [[Berkshire]], extends into Oxfordshire. *{{i-Museum}} [http://www.combemill.org Combe Mill Museum], [[Coobe, Oxfordshire|Combe]]
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• Leominster
  King Henry II bestowed the minster and its estates on Reading Abbey, which founded a new priory at Leominster in 1121.<ref>Hillaby, 53-7</ref> ...ave been the most successful, as shortly after the fire that destroyed the mill, it was reported that the cotton works "had been viewed with great pleasure
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• Leeds
  Marshall's Mill was one of the first of the many factories that were to be constructed in L ...back to the city's industrial past, while the site and ruins of Kirkstall Abbey display the beauty and grandeur of Cistercian architecture.
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• Isleworth
  ...London's Hospital of St Giles. He also gave the church and advowson to the Abbey of St Valeri, which stood at the mouth of the Somme in Picardy.<ref>'And So ...head, on the River Crane (not where the traditional Isleworth mill 'Kidd's Mill', because the stream there is artificial and did not exist at that time).<r
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• Beith
  ...&page=2 |archivedate=2012-02-18 |df= }}</ref> It was also used as a public reading room. For the first twenty years the management of the Town House was in th ...ury the Barony of Beith was given to the Tironensian monks of [[Kilwinning Abbey]] by the wife of Sir Richard de Morville. The farm or Grange of the monks i
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• Chertsey
  ...rved by Chertsey railway station on the Chertsey branch of the Waterloo to Reading Line. Egham today is somewhat hemmed in by the M3 to the north and the M25 ...century Chertsey Abbey was sacked by the Danes and refounded from Abingdon Abbey by King Edgar I in 964.
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• Canterbury
  ...n Roman times and rebuilt in the 14th century, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Norman castle, and perhaps the oldest school in England, The King's S ...but the King of Essex remained pagan and so Augustine settled in Kent. An abbey and cathedral were built. Augustine thus became the first Archbishop of Can
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• Charney Bassett
  |picture caption=Charney Bassett, from the bridge over the mill stream ...tive name for the [[River Ock]], that runs close by and which supplies the mill stream.
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• Sutton Courtenay
  In the past, agriculture, a local paper mill and domestic service were the main sources of employment within the village ...hurch and priest's house. It is believed that this was on the site of the 'Abbey' in Sutton Courtenay.
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• River Kennet
  ...le]] and eventually to [[Reading]]. The Kennet flows through the midst of Reading until it enters the Thames on the reach above Sonning Lock. ...as the [[Holy Brook]], which formerly powered the water mills of [[Reading Abbey]].
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• Earley
  |post town=Reading |constituency=Wokingham, Reading East
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• Thatcham
  ...in [[Berkshire]], found 3 miles east of [[Newbury]] and 15 miles west of [[Reading]]. A town of about 23,000 souls (estimated in 2003), has expanded rapidly w ...part transferred to Farcross Hundred, and the remainder to the Hundred of Reading.
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• Glossop
  ...ronage of the Howards and other mill-owning families the villages became a mill town with many chapels and churches, its fortunes tied to the cotton indust ...ater confiscated. In 1157 Henry II gave the manor of Glossop to Basingwerk Abbey, which gained for it a market charter in 1290,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  ...to the [[River Kennet]] at [[Newbury]] in Berkshire, and from Newbury to [[Reading]] the Kennet is itself canalised to the [[River Thames]]. ...allsop17>{{harvnb |Allsop |1987 |p=17}}</ref> The remains of Kelston Brass Mill, which was working until 1925, are next to Saltford Lock. The lock was open
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• Bradford-on-Avon
  ...unchanged from that age. With its Norman bridge, mediæval tithe barn and mill buildings, Bradford is a fascinating place. ...its centre of power to Yorkshire in the late 19th century. The last local mill closed in 1905. Many have since stood empty and some became derelict.
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• Erdington
  ...and was in the possession of Peter. It had arable land for six ploughs, a mill and 5 acres of meadows and woodland. It was valued at 30 shillings and was ...at which a straight channel was cut to facilitate the milling of corn. The mill was owned by the lord of the manor and the tenants were obliged to grind th
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• Burghfield
  |post town=Reading ...' is a village in the middle of [[Berkshire]], about four miles south of [[Reading]]. The parish includes two separate villages – Burghfield Common and Burg
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• Calcot, Berkshire
  |constituency=Reading West ...''', is a [[Berkshire]] village which has become a suburb in the west of [[Reading]], although not part of its civic area. Calcot stands along the A4 Bath Roa
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• Remenham
  |picture=Thames Downstream from Mill End - geograph.org.uk - 536844.jpg ...in the park was placed a Grecian ruin built of stones brought from Reading Abbey, and stones from the same place were used to build and stones from the same
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• Southcote, Berkshire
  |LG district=Reading |constituency=Reading West
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