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FARINGDON

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FARINGDON  , properly

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GREAT FARINGDON, a market
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town in the
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Abingdon
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parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, 17 M . W.S.W. of Oxford by road . Pop .. (19o1) 2900 . It lies on the slope of a low range of hills which
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borders the valley of the
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Thames on the south . It is the
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terminus of a branch of the Great Western railway from Uffington . The church of All Saints is a large cruciform
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building with low central tower . Its period is mainly Transitional Norman and Early
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English, and though considerably altered by restoration it contains some good details, with many monuments and brasses . Faringdon House, close to the church, was built by Henry James Pye (1745–1813), poet laureate from 1790 to 1813, who also caused to be planted the conspicuous
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group of
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fir-trees on the hill east of the town called Faringdon
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Clump, or locally (like other similar groups) the Folly . The trade of Faringdon is agricultural .

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