Written on Wednesday 30th July 2008
The entry on your blog has alerted me to an error on our website that we will have
to correct! Unfortunately our web entry perpetuates the myth that Botolph founded a
monastery here which is not proven. To quote the historian (and one of your authors)
Neil Wright "In 654 a Saxon monk named Botolph founded a monastery at a place called Iken, which was probably the village still called Iken near Aldeburgh on the coast
of Suffolk. The parish church of Boston is dedicated to St Botolph, and gave the
town its name, and for this reason a legend has arisen that Botolph
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