Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh
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Millennium Cross at Battersea manor
The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields...
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Rev. T. N. Rowsell, MA
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Thomas Reeding
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William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla
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