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Woburn , village, Bedfordshire, S central England. It is famous for Woburn Abbey (seat of the dukes of Bedford; see Russell , family), an 18th-century mansion constructed on the site of a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1145. It contains a noteworthy art collection with many classical works brought from Rome in the 18th cent. A safari park also is there.

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Woburn Beds. Woburne 1086 (DB). ‘(Place at) the crooked or winding stream’. OE wōh + burna. It gives name to nearby Woburn Sands Bucks.

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