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Great Gidding, '''Little Gidding''' and '''Steeple Gidding''' in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire ), England are Village s near Sawtry north west of Huntingdon .


LITTLE GIDDING


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.