The elegant Assembly Rooms were designed by John Wood the Younger from 1769 to act as a venue for social events and a public meeting place. If you were a member of high society visiting Bath during the Georgian and Victorian periods, then the Assembly Rooms were an essential stop on your daily social rounds.
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"In Clayworth, Grimkel had 2 bovates of land to the geld. There is land for 4 oxen. There Fulk, Roger's man, has 3 sokemen and 3 bordars with 3 1/2 ploughs. There is meadow 2 1/2 furlongs long and 18 perches broad, and woodland pasture 3 furlongs and 10 perches long, and as much broad. In the time of King Edward worth 4s, now 5s."
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Abingdon- Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Abingdon is the oldest continuously inhabited town in the UK, set beside the River Thames south of Oxford. Abingdon has been settled since at least the early Saxon period. Alfred the great held the manor of Abingdon, and his descendant Athelstan had a royal residence here in he 10th century. There are a wealth of historic buildings to see in Abingdon, including the ruins of medieval Abingdon Abbey, set on the banks of the Thames. ... more
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