Great Gidding
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- For the poem "Little Gidding" by T. S. Eliot see Four Quartets
Map sources for Great Gidding at grid reference TL117830
Great Gidding, Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England are villages near Sawtry north west of Huntingdon.
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Little Gidding was the home of a religious community established in 1626 by Nicholas Ferrar. In 1633 Charles I visited the community; in 1646 he returned, fleeing Parliamentary troops who broke up the community.
A visit to St John's Church by T. S. Eliot in 1936 helped to inspire the poem from the Four Quartets of the same name.
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