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=== Iver, Buckinghamshire === Another colony of Diggers connected to the Surrey and Wellingborough colony was set up in [[Iver]], Buckinghamshire about {{Convert|14|mi|km}} from the Surrey Diggers colony at St George's Hill.<ref name="Thomas" /> The Iver Diggers' "Declaration of the grounds and Reasons, why we the poor Inhabitants of the Parrish of Iver in Buckinghamshire ..."<ref>[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/hopton.htm#iver A Declaration of the Grounds and Reasons (Iver)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328035809/http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/hopton.htm#iver |date=28 March 2008 }} from Hopton, Andrew, ed. ''Digger Tracts, 1649β50''. London: Aporia, 1989. (transcribed by Clifford Stetner)</ref> revealed that there were further Digger colonies in Barnet in Hertfordshire, Enfield in Middlesex, Dunstable in Bedfordshire, Bosworth in Leicestershire and further colonies at unknown locations in [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Nottinghamshire]]. It also revealed that after the failure of the Surrey colony, the Diggers had left their children to be cared for by parish funds.
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