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HITCHIN , a marketSee also: town in the Hitchin See also: parliamentary division of See also: Hertfordshire, See also: England, on the small See also: river Hiz, 32 m
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N. from See also: London by the See also: Great See also: Northern railway
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Pop. of See also: urban See also: district (1901) 10,072
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It is the junction of the See also: main See also: line with the Cambridge branch, and with a branch of the Midland railway to See also: Bedford: The See also: church of St Mary is Perpendicular, with a
See also: fine porch, a See also: painting of the Adoration of the Magi, attributed to See also: Rubens, a small crypt said to have been used by See also: Cromwell as a prison for the Royalists, and many interesting monuments
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Hitchin Priory is a mansion on the site of a Carmelite foundation of the early 14th century
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A Gilbertine nunnery, founded later in the same century, stood adjacent to the church, and portions of the buildings appear in an existing See also: block of almshouses
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The grammar school (1632) was reconstituted in 1889 for boys and girls
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See also: Straw-plaiting, malting, See also: brewing, and the cultivation and See also: distillation of See also: lavender and See also: peppermint are carried on
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