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Interesting Sites
The following sites all have interesting stories attached to them and have been visited by our Bedfordshire Team. They all have potential for an Investigation in the future.
WHITBY ABBEY
Whitby Abbey overlooks the town of Whitby and was founded in 657AD by Oswy, the Saxon King of Northumbria. Lady Hilda was then appointed Abbess of the double Monastry of Benedictine Monks and Nuns. It was also the home of the first recorded Saxon Poet, Caedmon.
By 664 Whitby Abbey was the home of the Synod of Whitby and the Northumbrian Celtic Church was reconciled to Rome.
867AD saw the desrtuction of the Abbey from Viking attacks and it was abandoned until 1078AD when it was refounded by a Templar, Regenfrith under the orders of his Norman protector, William de Percy.
The Abbey was destroyed a second time in 1540 by Henry V111 and was never rebuilt after this.
View of the Abbey
CARDINGTON
The giant hangars of Cardington Airbase can be found just outside the village of Cardington in Bedfordshire. They have had many uses over the years including recently being used for filming Harry Potter and two of the Batman films.
These Hangars are said to be unlucky and haunted by the crew of an airship based here. In 1930 R-101 appeared over Beauvais in France at about 2am barely clearing the Church steeple and all the while moving along broadside appearing to be out of control in the wind and rain.
Eventually the airship hit a hummock of earth and exploded due to 5 and a half million cubic feet of Hydrogen used for buoyancy, igniting. It is said that the unfortunate airman still roam the Hangars.
High Beech, Epping Forest.
High Beech can be found on the edge of Epping Forest and Tennyson lived here between 1837 - 1840 where he wrote 'In Memoriam' in the local churchyard.
The Church itself was rebuilt in 1873 on a much older site.
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