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Beckery
Abandoned textile mill at Beckery
Beckery is located in Somerset
Beckery
Beckery
Location within Somerset
OS grid referenceST4868638285
District
  • Mendip
Shire county
  • Somerset
Region
  • South West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGlastonbury
Postcode districtBA6
Dialling code01458
PoliceAvon and Somerset
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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Somerset
51°08′55″N 2°42′50″W / 51.1485°N 2.7140°W / 51.1485; -2.7140

Beckery (also Little Ireland) is an area within Glastonbury. It was once the main industrial area of the town. The area is said to have been visited by Saint Brigid of Kildare in the 4th or 5th century.

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Beckery

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Beckery (also Little Ireland) is an area within Glastonbury. It was once the main industrial area of the town. The area is said to have been visited by...

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Glastonbury

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'Glastonbury of the Irish' and this could well be referring to the area of Beckery (Little Ireland) where it is believed an Irish Colony established itself...

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Brigid of Kildare

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wrote in the mid-fourteenth century that the chapel which was excavated in Beckery was named after her; 'Saint Brigid made a stay of several years on an island...

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List of places in Somerset

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Bathford, Bathpool, Bathway, Battleton, Bawdrip, Beam Bridge, Beardly Batch, Beckery, Beckington, Beercrocombe, Beggearn Huish, Belluton, Benter, Berhill, Berkley...

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List of Irish place names in other countries

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Cliffs Ranelagh (Paris Métro) O'Donnell (Madrid Metro) Calle de O'Donnell Beckery, Somerset (from Bec Eriu, Old Irish for "Little Ireland"; the name was...

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Catherine Hills

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University of Cambridge. In the 1960s, Hill excavated with Philip Rahtz at Beckery chapel, Glastonbury. She was appointed as a lecturer in Cambridge in 1977...

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Insular monasticism

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The earliest monastic site in the United Kingdom appears to have been at Beckery, near Glastonbury. Excavations conducted in 2016, revealed what archaeologists...

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John Goodchild

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the River Brue. This place was reputedly known as the Women's Quarter, Beckery, and according to legend was linked to St Bride. Then, he waited for the...

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Cyril Baily

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family business, working as a book-keeper for Messrs A Baily and Co, at the Beckery Leather Factory in Glastonbury. Later in 1905, he resigned his command...

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1979 New Year Honours

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Church Stretton Primary School, Salop. Olive Irene Mitchell, Manager, Beckery Centre for the Mentally Handicapped, Glastonbury, Somerset. James West...

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River Brue

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encircled Glastonbury from the south, around the western side (through Beckery), and then north through the Panborough-Bleadney gap in the Wedmore-Wookey...

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Scheduled monuments in Mendip

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mound is approximately 20 metres (66 ft) in diameter. 1015921 Upload Photo Beckery Chapel and cemetery (site of) Glastonbury Cemetery Middle Ages ST 48405...

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