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Encyclopedia Britannica



HITCHIN

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 534 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HITCHIN , a market town in the Hitchin parliamentary division of
Hertfordshire
 , England, on the small river Hiz, 32 m. N. from London by the
Great
  Northern railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 10,072. It is the junction of the main line with the
Cambridge
  branch, and with a branch of the Midland railway to
Bedford
 : The church of St Mary is Perpendicular, with a fine porch, a painting of the Adoration of the Magi, attributed to
Rubens
 , a small crypt said to have been used by Cromwell as a prison for the Royalists, and many interesting monuments. Hitchin Priory is a
mansion
  on the site of a Carmelite foundation of the early 14th century. A Gilbertine nunnery, founded later in the same century, stood adjacent to the church, and portions of the buildings appear in an existing
block
  of almshouses. The grammar school (1632) was reconstituted in 1889 for boys and girls. Straw-plaiting, malting, brewing, and the cultivation and
distillation
  of
lavender
  and peppermint are carried on.


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