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50: 34: 337:, where it would remain until the Victorian period. For several centuries, the part of Suffolk centred on Exning was almost an enclave of the county within the confines of Cambridgeshire. The parish of Newmarket All Saints was transferred from Cambridgeshire to this virtual enclave in 1894, but it continued to be practically detached until boundary changes in the area widened considerably the "bridge" between it and the rest of Suffolk a hundred years later. 1372: 57: 332:
used its water for healing. Newmarket jockeys used to take horses there to drink before a race. At the time of William the Conqueror, Exning was in Staploe Hundred. Later, the settlement was in the Liberty of Ely. When the powers of the Liberty were reduced, some of its territory returned to Suffolk,
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were located in Harraton House. Nearby Newmarket Heath, the northwest corner of which borders on Exning, was used as an airfield for, amongst others, Stirling III Bombers of
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in 1973. This led to the destruction of the site and its consequential delisting as a scheduled monument. However the sit was examined before the destruction of the site.
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A spring at Exning was named St Wendreda's Well, and a local legend had it that the seventh-century
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The most conspicuous building in Exning is the church of St Martin, which is visible from the A14.
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is an early Victorian building which was frequently visited by Queen Mary.
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Local lore reputes Exning to have been the capital of the
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Exning is located in Suffolk
Suffolk
District
West Suffolk
Shire county
Suffolk
Region
East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Newmarket
Postcode district
CB8
UK
England
Suffolk
52°16′00″N 0°21′00″E / 52.2667°N 0.35°E / 52.2667; 0.35
civil parish
West Suffolk
Suffolk
A14 trunk road
Cambridge
Ely
Newmarket
Iceni
Queen Boadicea
A14

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