Church Micro 3485 St Peters, Stixwould. Traditional Cache
Church Micro 3485 St Peters, Stixwould.
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The name Stixwould derives from a combination of the Old Scandinavian and Old English Stigr+wald, meaning "Stigr's forest". It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Stigeswalde.
DO NOT PARK AT GZ. PARK OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. ITS SAFER.
St Peters is part of the Woodhall Spa group of serving six parishes and six villages
At one time a Priory of Cistercian nuns, founded by Lucy, relict of Ivo Taibois, existed in the parish. In 1850, a stone coffin and the fragments of another, were discovered on the Abbey farm.
Only a few mounds remain to indicate the location of the Abbey.
The Anglican parish church was dedicated to St. Peter, rebuilt in 1831 from local stone, reputedly many from the ruins of the local Abbey.
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