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CROSS (St.), a place in Carisbrooke parish, Isle of Wight; 1 mile N of Carisbrooke. A Cistertian priory, a cell to Tiron abbey in France, was founded here before 1155; and given, at the dissolution of alien priories, to Winchester college.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Carisbrooke AP/CP Hampshire AncC |
Place names: | CROSS ST | ST CROSS |
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