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England

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Gloucestershire

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Gloucestershire

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South West

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United Kingdom

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Gloucestershire

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Cotswold District

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Rendcomb is a village in the Cotswold local authority area of the English county of Gloucestershire. It is about five miles north of Cirencester. In 1920, Rendcomb College was founded in the Country House adjacent to the village.

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Map of Rendcomb, Cirencester, UK

Notable residents

  • Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980; the fourth person to win two Nobel Prizes
  • R. N. D. Wilson (1899–1953), Irish poet who taught at Rendcomb College from 1934 to 1944

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    Rendcomb Wikipedia
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