St Bees

St Bees is a village in the district of Cumbria. It is located on the northwest coast of England, near the Scottish border. The nearest major town is White Haven.

The village has about 1800 inhabitants. St Bees is named after the Irish hermit St Bega, who had a hermitage here. Bees is the Anglicized form of the name.

Founded in 1817 George Henry Law, a conservative bishop of Chester and brother of the judge Ellenborough in St Bees an Anglican seminary. It should educate clerics who were too poor to study theology at Oxford or Cambridge.

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