Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire

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Ludgershall is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located near the border with Oxfordshire, about five miles east of Bicester, four miles west of Waddesdon.

The name of the village is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means "nook with a trapping spear". It occurs in more than one place in England (see Ludgershall). In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Lotegarser.

There was formerly a hospital in this village which belonged to the priory of Santingfield in Picardy, France; in the reign of King Henry VI, when all foreign church possessions were seized by the Crown, this hospital was given to Trinity College, Cambridge.

Ludgershall was at one time home to the theologian John Wyclif.

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