Secular Connections
St. Botolph founded the monastery of Ikanhoe in Suffolk. Boston was 'Botolphston' (from "Botolph's stone" or "Botolph's town").
He is remembered in the names of both the market town of Boston in Lincolnshire (100 miles north of London), and Boston in Massachusetts, United States.
In Boston in Massachusetts, St Botolph is the name of a street (St. Botolph Street), a private club and the President's House at Boston College. There is also a St. Botolph Street in London, as well several London churches are dedicated to the saint.
Botolph gave his name to several English villages. Originally called Botulph’s Bridge, Bottlebridge lost its identity when it became part of Orton Longueville parish in 1762.
Cambridge University's poetry journal in the 1950s, in which Ted Hughes contributed, was called St. Botolph's Review. It was named for St. Botolph's Church in Cambridge, since one of its co-founders, Lucas Myers, lived on the grounds of its rectory. A second edition of the journal was published in 2006. St Botolph's College is now frequently used as a hypothetical college in Cambridge University communications and Tripos examinations, alongside the Department of Important Studies.
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