Luffield Road, SE2

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Named after the former Luffield Priory, a monastic house in Luffield Abbey, straddling the counties of Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. The priory was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester between 1118 and 1135, and dissolved in 1494. This road, like many of the surrounding ones, is named after a former religious house in reference to the nearby Lesnes Abbey.

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