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The Roysse Room was the site of Abingdon School ( then ' Roysse's School ') from 1563 until it moved to its current site after an indenture by John Roysse, who had been born and educated in Abingdon before he moved to London.
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The ceremony of the formal admission of a Benedictine abbot in medieval times is thus prescribed by the consuetudinary of Abingdon.
The death of Eadwine, Ealdorman of Sussex, is recorded in 982, because he was buried at Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire, where one version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was compiled.
The first abbot was one Foldbriht, whose name is sufficiently rare to suggest that he may be the same Foldbriht whom Bishop Æthelwold previously installed at Abingdon and used to be a monk of Glastonbury before that time.
It is named after St Edmund of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the first Oxford-educated Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived and taught on the college site.
which is a popular, if conservative, estimate for the establishment of the Hall, but is in fact the date of the canonisation of St Edmund of Abingdon.
The college also owns the University College Boathouse ( completed in 2007 ) and a sports ground which is located nearby on Abingdon Road.
Abingdon is part of the Kingsport – Bristol ( TN )– Bristol ( VA ) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City – Kingsport – Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the " Tri-Cities " region.
The land on which the town of Abingdon is situated was originally surveyed between the years 1748 and 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker and was part of the Great Road that Colonel William Byrd III ordered cut through the wilderness on to Kingsport, Tennessee.
Abingdon is also the final stop along the Virginia Creeper Trail, which allows pedestrian, cyclist and equestrian traffic.
This trail is 35 miles long extending from White Top Mountain through Damascus, VA with the trailhead in Abingdon.
The Washington County Historical Society is located in Abingdon and serves as a regional genealogy center, in addition as a repository for Washington County history.
Abingdon is served by Washington County Public Schools, in which students attend Abingdon Elementary, Watauga Elementary, Greendale Elementary, E. B.
Virginia Highlands Community College located in Abingdon is the local community college offering 2-year degrees.
There is also a tradition that Æthelred was associated with the founding of Abingdon Abbey, in southern Oxfordshire.
The Wilts & Berks Canal is a canal in the historic counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, linking the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, near Melksham, to the River Thames at Abingdon.
Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town, with people having lived there for at least 6, 000 years.
Abingdon is south of Oxford and north of Didcot in the flat valley of the Thames on its west ( right ) bank, where the small river Ock flows in from the Vale of White Horse.
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Abingdon Abbey was founded in Saxon times, possibly the 7th century, but its early history is confused by numerous legends, invented to raise its status and explain the place name.
The Oxfordshire Guardian, a free newspaper, has been based in Abingdon for many years and was founded as the South Oxfordshire Courier.
In education, the Company has administered St Paul's School since 1509, and St Paul's Girls ' School since 1904, and retains close links with Collyer's College, Dauntsey's School, Abingdon School, Peter Symonds College and Gresham College, all founded by Mercers.
Radley College ( St Peter's College, Radley ), founded in 1847, is a British independent school for boys on the edge of the English village of Radley, near to the market town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, and is a boarding school.
The club was founded in 1946 as a rival to the already existing Abingdon Town at the Anchor pub on the bank of the River Thames.
Some believe the school to have been founded prior to 12th century by the Benedictine monks of Abingdon Abbey, with a legal document of 1100 listing Richard the Pedagogue as the first headmaster.
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