Francis and Mary Askham were two sisters who both died from a "contagious fever".

St Mary, Conington, Cambridgeshire 
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An avenue of neatly clipped yews leads to the west tower, the only part of the medieval church that remains. It is clasped by huge pyramidal brick buttresses on the corner added in 1737 when the earlier nave was replaced.


Francis and Mary Askham were two sisters who both died from a "contagious fever".

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