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Normandy Veterans Memorial Gardens black plaque

Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

Normandy Veterans Memorial Gardens black plaque

The Normandy Veterans Memorial Gardens. This area known as "Sunken Gardens"is thought to be the most historic place in Grange-over-sands. Grange is thought to take its name from a French word "graunge" meaning "granary", an example of which was probably built here by black-robed Augustinian Canons o

f Cartmel Priory, a 12th century religious house endowed by William Marshall. Until the dissolution of England's monasteries in 1536, Priors of Cartmel imported supplies into the "graunge" through a h

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