Milton, Vale of White Horse
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Milton is a village and civil parish about 3 miles west of Didcot and a similar distance south of Abingdon. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,290.
Milton Manor
St Blaise's parish church
War memorial in High St
42A and 42B High Street
Abingdon Abbey
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Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Abingdon-on-Thames in the modern county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. Situated near to the River Thames, it was founded in c. 675 AD and was dedic
Milton, Vale of White Horse
…corroded to be identified. In 956 King Eadwig granted 15 hides of land at Milton to his thegn Alfwin, who in turn gave the estate to the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey. In the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s the abbey surrendered its lands to the Crown. Milton was among a number of estates that Henry VIII…
The Long Gallery at Abingdon Abbey.
The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, was the rectory of the abbey.
The "Abingdon Missal", dated to 1461, depicts the donor and the Abbey's abbot William Ashenden kneeling to the bottom left of the crucifixion. The manuscript is held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Long Gallery, Abingdon Abbey