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    Ranton Abbey or Ranton Priory was an Augustinian Priory in Ranton, Staffordshire, England, built c.1150 by Robert fitz Noel of Ellenhall. The priory flourished...
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    Abbey House is an early 19th-century ruined stately home in Ranton, Staffordshire, England. The red-brick Regency house was built in 1820 by Thomas Anson...
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  • country house Abbey House, Ranton, Staffordshire, a ruined 1820 house Abbey House, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, surrounded by Abbey House Gardens Abbey House Museum...
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  • and Ranton and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of a church, a cross in the churchyard, the surviving tower of an abbey church...
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  • been converted into dwellings, which lies about 1 mile southeast of Ranton Abbey. Aird, Alisdair; Stapley, Fiona (2012). The Good Pub Guide 2012. Random...
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    Church, Ranton All Saints, Ranton Ranton Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ranton, Staffordshire. Picture of Ranton Abbey Tower and Abbey House viewed...
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  • Calwich Abbey, previously Calwich Priory, was in turn the name of a medieval Augustinian priory and two successive country houses built on the same site...
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  • 1694 Cope was born on 9 July 1664, the third son of Jonathan Cope of Ranton Abbey and his wife Anne Farmer, daughter of Sir Halton Farmer of Easton Neston...
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    chantry at the abbey, although it was not until about 1426 that practical and legal difficulties were overcome to establish the chantry. Ranton Priory in Staffordshire...
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    Milwich 551 (Newcastle-under-Lyme) - Included under North Division Ranton 273 Ranton Abbey 17 Extra-parochial area Sandon 558 Seighford 898 Stafford 8,512...
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    St Mary's Abbey, Oulton is a former Benedictine convent located in the village of Oulton near Stone in Staffordshire, England. The Abbey church is Grade...
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    Demolished. Mawley Hall, Shropshire. Possible work to stables 1748. Ranton Abbey Staffordshire. Surveyed 1748–1742. Gutted c1940. Powis Castle Montgomeryshire...
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    Britain on 1 March 1714 for Jonathan Cope of Bruern Abbey, grandson of Jonathan Cope of Ranton Abbey, who was a younger son of Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet...
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  • Verney 1684: Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre Hall 1685: Jonathan Cope of Ranton Abbey 1686: Sir Walter Wrottesley, Bt of Wrottesley Hall 1687: Philip Draycot...
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    Hulton Abbey Keele Preceptory Lapley Priory Lichfield Greyfriars Little Haywood Abbey Newcastle-under-Lyme Blackfriars Oulton Abbey Radmore Abbey Ranton Priory...
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  • landed gentry. This faction, centred on the Harcourts of Ellenhall and Ranton Abbey and their kinsmen, the Astons and the Greys of Enville, Staffordshire...
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  • Commons from 1713 to 1722. Cope was the eldest son of Jonathan Cope, MP of Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire, and his wife Susan Fowler, daughter of Sir Thomas Fowler...
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    1589 parliament was Walter Harcourt. His family, based at Ellenhall and Ranton Abbey were part of a religiously conservative faction that had dominated Staffordshire...
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    contested Liverpool in the Liberal interest in June 1841. He retired to Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire, in 1843, and at the general election of 1847 was elected...
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    county seats had been controlled by the Harcourt family of Ellenhall and Ranton Abbey, part of a group of Catholic sympathisers that included for a time the...
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  • Porthill, Prospect Village, Pye Green, Pipe Gate Quarnford. Ramsor/Ramshorn, Ranton, Rawnsley, Rocester, Rodbaston, Rolleston on Dove, Rookery, Rudyard, Rugeley...
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    Dieulacres Abbey was a Cistercian monastery established by Ranulf, Earl of Chester at Poulton in Cheshire. It moved to the present site at Abbey Green near...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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  • Radmore Abbey was a cistercian abbey near Cannock Wood, Staffordshire, England, which is located north of Burntwood and south of Rugeley. Originally a...
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  • Rocester Abbey was a medieval monastic house at Rocester, Staffordshire, England of which there is now no trace above ground level. The Augustinian abbey of...
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    Croxden Abbey, also known as "Abbey of the Vale of St. Mary at Croxden", was a Cistercian abbey at Croxden, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. A daughter...
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    Abbey Hulton is an area of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, named after the abbey that existed between the 13th and 16th centuries. The name Abbey...
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  • Staffordshire, England, founded in 1080 by Henry de Ferrers as a dependency of the abbey of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives in Normandy and completed in 1089, in memory of...
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  • Monasteries in Staffordshire Augustinian Baswich Priory Calwich Priory Ranton Priory Rocester Abbey Stone Priory Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford Trentham Priory...
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