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3 unusual facts about Dunmow


Dunmow

Little Dunmow, a village located about 3 miles outside the town of Great Dunmow

Great Dunmow, a town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England

Little Canfield

It is in the Takeley and the Canfields ward of Uttlesford; and the Dunmow division of Essex County Council.


Baynard's Castle

Later in Henry's reign, the lordship of Dunmow and honour or soke of Baynard's Castle were granted to the king's steward, Robert Fitz Richard (1064–1136).

Little Dunmow

The monastic buildings stood to the southwest of the church but, along with much of the Priory, were razed to the ground after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when the priory site, with the manors of Little Dunmow and Clopton Hall, were granted to the patron of the priory, Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex.

Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton

They had two sons, Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, and Waltheof of Melrose, and one daughter, Maud de Senlis, who married (1st) Robert Fitz Richard (of the De Clare family), of Little Dunmow, Essex.


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