Padbury: The Church of St Mary the Virgin
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Padbury: The Church of St Mary the Virgin
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 17 Oct 2010
This is a repeat of Rob's Image from more or less the same angle but on a somewhat gloomier day. The naming of this church seems to have a curious history. Old Ordnance Survey maps of the Victorian era and up to 1923 call it St Matthew's, yet the 1927 History of the County of Buckingham refers to it as The Church of The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin. By 1977 the Ordnance Survey are calling it St Mary's Church, but by 1983 they had retired from the fray and called it just PW (Place of Worship).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.971988
Longitude
-0.951252