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Runnymede



Runnymede, or Runnimede, meadow in Surrey, South England, on the southern bank of the Thames River. Here (or at nearby Magna Carta Island), King John conceded the barons' demands embodied in the Magna Carta (1215).

See also: Magna Carta.

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