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john of hexham
(c. 1160 – 1209) an English chronicler, known to us merely as the author of a work called the Historia XXV. annorum, which continues the Historia regum attributed to Symeon of Durham, and contains an account of English events from 1130 to 1153.
Hexham Abbey
a Grade I listed church dedicated to St Andrew, in the town of Hexham, Northumberland, in the North East of England.
Battle of Hexham
The Battle of Hexham, 15 May 1464, marked the end of significant Lancastrian resistance in the north of England during the early part of the reign of Edward IV.
Hexham Heads
a pair of small stone heads, about 6 cm high, found in 1971 in the English town of Hexham.
Hexham wolf
The (also called the Allendale wolf or the Wolf of Allendale) a grey wolf that escaped from a zoo and killed livestock in Hexham and Allendale, Northumberland during the winter of 1904.
bishop of hexham
an episcopal title which took its name after the market town of Hexham in Northumberland, England.
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