Great Gidding
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- For the poem "Little Gidding" by T. S. Eliot see Four Quartets
  Map sources for Great Gidding at grid reference TL117830
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Great Gidding, Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England are villages near Sawtry north west of Huntingdon.
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Little Gidding was the home of a religious community established in 1626 by Nicholas Ferrar. In 1633 Charles I visited the community; in 1646 he returned, fleeing Parliamentary troops who broke up the community.
A visit to St John's Church by T. S. Eliot in 1936 helped to inspire the poem from the Four Quartets of the same name.
