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Hitchin

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Hitchin, city (1991 pop. 33,480), Hertfordshire, SE England. Hitchin was the site of a monastery in Offa Offa , d. 796, king of Mercia (757–96). He succeeded Æthelbald to the throne, but it was some years before he attained the power of his predecessor.
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's time and appears in the Domesday Book Domesday Book , record of a general census of England made (1085–86) by order of William I (William the Conqueror). The survey ascertained the economic resources of most of the country for purposes of more accurate taxation.
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 as a royal manor named Hiz. Corn and cattle are traded at a biweekly market. Industries include building contracting, engineering, tanning, parchment making, medicinal distilling, and rose growing. Henry Bessemer, the inventor, and George Chapman Chapman, George, 1559?–1634, English dramatist, translator, and poet. He is as famous for his plays as for his poetic translations of Homer's Iliad (1612) and Odyssey (1614–15).
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 were born in Hitchin.


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After losing 2-1 at leaders Hitchin at the weekend where Grant Roscorla missed a last minute penalty for Daren Fulford's men, Town have just one win in their last four league outings but what's puzzling for the Adders boss is that his side have won just once in front of their own fans all season.
ROMULUS were reduced to fielding three players from their youth team against topof-the-table Hitchin Town this week after a stomach bug swept through the squad.
Byline: LAURA DAVIS SCULPTOR Stephen Hitchin is so dedicated to his work that he once spent a summer camping in a Staffordshire stone quarry.
 
 
 
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