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LAMBOURN

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAMBOURN , a See also:

market See also:town in the See also:Newbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Berkshire, See also:England, 65 m. W. of See also:London, the See also:terminus of the Lambourn Valley See also:light railway from Newbury. Pop. (1901) 2071. It lies high up the narrow valley of the Lambourn, a tributary of the Kennet famous for its See also:trout-fishing, among the Berkshire See also:Downs. The See also:church of St See also:Michael is cruciform and principally See also:late See also:Norman, but has numerous additions of later periods and has been considerably altered by See also:modern restoration. The inmates of an See also:almshouse founded by See also:John Estbury, c. 1500, by his See also:desire still hold service daily at his See also:tomb in the church. A Perpendicular market-See also:cross stands without the church. The town has agricultural See also:trade, but its See also:chief importance is derived from large training stables in the neighbourhood. To the See also:north of the town is a large See also:group of tumuli known as the Seven Barrows, ascertained by excavation to be a See also:British See also:burial-See also:place.

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