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Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh

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Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.

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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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Eton Mission and Eton Manor Clubs

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John Felton

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Roger Bacon

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College of Minor Canons in St Paul’s Cathedral

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Building, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial
John Denley

John Denley

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1 memorial