The ceremony of the formal admission of a Benedictine abbot in medieval times is thus prescribed by the consuetudinary of Abingdon.

* Abingdon School is founded.

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.

Its county seat is Abingdon.

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 approximately seven miles south of Abingdon, and about 23 miles south of Galesburg Illinois.

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 a town in Washington County, Virginia, USA, 133 miles ( 214 km ) southwest of Roanoke.

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.

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 located at ( 36. 709773 ,-81. 975694 ).

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.

Edmund Rich ( also known as Saint Edmund or Eadmund of Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon ) ( 1175 – 1240 ) was a 13th century Archbishop of Canterbury in England.

Edwin, probably ruling in Sussex, and perhaps also parts of Kent and Surrey, was buried at Abingdon, an abbey patronised by Ælfhere.

While himself a patron of Ely and Abingdon, Ælfhere was also charged with despoiling reformed monasteries during Edward the Martyr's brief reign ( 975-978 ).

The College also has three large groups of buildings for student accommodation near Folly Bridge: Warnock House, the Graduate Centre and Abingdon House.

: See also Abbot of Abingdon, Abingdon School and List of notable Old Abingdonians.

The British Motor Corporation ( BMC ) competition department was also based at the Abingdon plant and produced many winning rally and race cars.

With this increase in his practice, Blackstone also saw an increase in his out-of-court work, writing opinions and recommendations for various Oxford colleges, the MP Jonathan Rashleigh and the fourth Earl of Abingdon, who paid him to draft several private Acts of Parliament.

Other companies based in the area in the past include Abingdon Motorcycles ( later becoming King Dick Tools ), Dawes Cycles, Girling Brakes, MEM Electrical, Harmo Exhausts, Wilmot Breedon and also the factory where Co-Operative Society ( CWS ) toys, motorcycles, prams and bicycles were made.

For more information on this creation ( which became extinct on his death in 1622 ), see the Earl of Abingdon and also the Earl of Lindsey.

The Pinta Island tortoise ( Chelonoidis nigra ), also known as the Pinta giant tortoise, Abingdon Island tortoise, or Abingdon Island giant tortoise, was a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island.

Jonathan is also a keen runner ; he has run the London Marathon twice, the Brighton Marathon twice, and was chosen to carry the Queen's Jubilee Baton through Abingdon in Oxfordshire in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire ( historically Berkshire ) also claims to be the oldest town in Britain in continuous settlement, with people having lived there for at least 6, 000 years.

The company also produced Abingdon Motorcycles until 1925.

After World War II RAF Abingdon became part of RAF Transport Command, and also became the home of No 1 Parachute Training School which is now stationed at RAF Brize Norton.

Fuck the Border Line, a tribute album to Kuroyume, was also released on February 9, 2011, featuring covers of the band's songs by artists such as Abingdon Boys School, Plastic Tree, The Gazette, Sid.

On 22 July 1612, four women and one man were hanged at Abingdon Gallows in Northampton for the crime of witchcraft, also known as the Northamptonshire Witch Trials.

In her later years, she continued to be a regular member of the teaching faculty for residential ballet courses such as the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars and the Abingdon Ballet Seminars, and was also President and a regular guest teacher at the Arts Educational Schools in London and Tring.

* St. Edmund Rich ( 1175 – 1240 ), also known as Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury

To meet US safety regulations, later North American tourers got three windscreen wipers instead of just two ( to sweep the required percentage of the glass ), and also received a plastic and foam rubber covered " safety " dashboard, dubbed the " Abingdon pillow ".

He also supposedly laid the foundations for St. Mary's in Reading, Saint Helen's in Abingdon and other churches across old Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, such as the church of St Peter and St Paul, Checkendon near Reading.