Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England

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Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England

TOWN

Official Website:
http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/

Population:
36,000

Founding Date:
1556 (royal charter)

Transferred from Berkshire into Oxfordshire, 1974.

BIRTHS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Kate Garraway TV Personality 4-May-1967 GMTV

Dorothy Richardson Novelist 17-May-1873 17-Jun-1957 Pilgrimage novel sequence

DEATHS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John Masefield Poet 1-Jun-1878 12-May-1967 Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67

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