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Huguenots in Cranfield:

7/19/2012

 
Wikipedia and some other sources show the Huguenots settling in Cranfield, Bedford and Luton within Bedfordshire:

Other Huguenots arriving in England settled in Bedfordshire, which was (at the time) the main centre of England's lace industry. Huguenots greatly contributed to the development of lace-making in Bedfordshire, with many families settling in Cranfield, Bedford and Luton. Some of these immigrants moved to Norwich, which had accommodated an earlier settlement of Walloon weavers; they added to the existing immigrant population, which comprised about a third of the population of the city. 


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