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St Albans
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Definition:a city in Hertfordshire, England and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans. [...] It is a historic market town and is now a dormitory town within the London commuter belt and the Greater London Built-up Area.[...]Before the 20th century St Albans was a rural market town, a Christian pilgrimage site, and the first coaching stop of the route to and from London, accounting for its numerous old inns. Victorian St Albans was small and had little industry. Its population grew more slowly than London, 8–9% per decade between 1801 and 1861, compared to the 31% per decade growth of London in the same period. The railway arrived relatively late, in 1858. In 1869 the extension of the city boundaries was opposed by the Earl of Verulam and many of the townsfolk, but there was rapid expansion and much building at the end of the century, and between 1891 and 1901 the population grew by 37%.[...]text from Wikpedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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The old and wealthy Abbey of St. Albans was little more than a den of prostitutes, with whom the monks lived openly and avowedly.
David Marshall Brooks. The Necessity of Atheism (1933)
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Our journey was somewhat farther than from London to St. Alban’s.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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Mrs. Steerforth was very glad to see me, and said that he had gone away with one of his Oxford friends to see another who lived near St. Albans, but that she expected him to return tomorrow. I was so fond of him, that I felt quite jealous of his Oxford friends.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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