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St Mary's, Great Bedwyn,Wiltshire
Great Bedwyn, and its little sister, little Bedwyn, lie off the main Berkshire to Wiltshire road, both near to the Kennet and Avon Canal. Great Bedwyn is a sizeable but somehow rather quiet village, with its quite large and rather nice church and its interesting graveyard. One thing struck me about the graves here is that there are a number of unusual names to be spotted, both first names and surname and I've included and commented upon some examples below.
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Our first unusual name. What's so unusual about Benjamin, I hear you ask? Look again at the spelling.
Our next unusual name. I'm certain that's a rare surname, and I'll bet he came in for some teasing as a schoolboy.
Two unusual names for the price of one here. Note the spelling: Zabulon.
Look again at the spelling of this one: Zebulon. I've never come across this name before, but to find two alternative spellings of
the name in one place is wacky!
Delamination has rendered this gravestone pretty well unreadable, but I can make out James Harper and perhaps Ellenor - which if so,
probably classifies it as another unusual name, or at least, an unusual spelling thereof.
A wooden heart. Together with other decorative niceties the whole thing seems very 60's somehow.
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