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MONUMENT NO. 344482

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Royal residence at Kingsbury, immediately east of the church square. Extant in the 12th century.

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The traditional site of the royal residence at Aylesbury was Kingsbury (Area SP 818138). Henry I stayed here in 1105 or 1106 and Henry II is known to have had an inn or hospitium here, although no expenditure on its buildings is recorded. (1)

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( 1) R Allen Brown, H M Colvin and A J Taylor 1963 The history of the King's Works, volume 2 : the Middle Ages

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