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    55506°W / 52.59739; -2.55506 Wenlock Priory, or St Milburga's Priory, is a ruined 12th-century monastery, located in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, at grid reference...
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    historic attractions in the town are Wenlock Priory, Wenlock Edge, Holy Trinity Church and the Guildhall. The Wenlock Olympian Games, established by William...
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  • Wenlock Priory, a 7th/12th-century monastery Wenlock Basin, a canal basin in London Wenlock Edge, a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock Wenlock, Queensland...
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    Mildburh (redirect from Milburga of Wenlock)
    Milburga or Milburgh) (died 23 February 727) was the Benedictine abbess of Wenlock Priory. Her feast day is 23 February. Mildburh was a daughter of Merewalh,...
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  • Patton (hundred) (category Much Wenlock)
    Held by Wenlock Priory (Bourton: as overlord/tenant-in-chief) and became part of the Wenlock franchise. ŵ Otherwise became part of the Wenlock franchise...
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    circular basin which was replaced in 1432–33 with one of marble. At Wenlock Priory, the octagonal lavatorium, now ruined, was decorated with late-12th-century...
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    Shropshire, England which was originally built as a grange to the medieval Wenlock Priory. It has since been restored as a hotel. The house is ashlar built in...
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    county day is on 23 February, the feast day of St Milburga, abbess of Wenlock Priory. St Milburga was the daughter of Anglo-Saxon king Merewalh, who founded...
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    evangelise the people. King Merewalh of Magonsæte founds the monastery of Wenlock Priory in Shropshire, England, appointing his daughter Milburga as Benedictine...
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    and extended by his son, the garden-writer Christopher Lloyd. Much Wenlock Priory, Shropshire Drummond Castle Gardens (Perthshire, Scotland) Portmeirion...
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  • Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons...
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  • Trinity, Much Wenlock (1053793)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 September 2018 Historic England, "Priory House, Much Wenlock (1053843)"...
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  • was personally devoted to the Cluniac Wenlock Priory in Shropshire. Alternately, the decision to associate Wenlock with his foundation at Renfrew could...
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    Wangford Priory, Suffolk Wenlock Priory, Shropshire Crossraguel Abbey, Ayrshire Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire Renfrew Abbey, Renfrewshire Malpas Priory St Clears...
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    was 605. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book, when it belonged to Wenlock Priory. Ancient habitation is attested by the discovery of two caches of Bronze...
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    best-preserved Cluniac houses in England are Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk, and Wenlock Priory, Shropshire. It is thought that there were only three Cluniac...
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    Priory Ratlinghope Priory SHREWSBURY (see below) Snead Priory Stanton Long Preceptory Stitt, purported cell Much Wenlock Priory White Ladies Priory Wombridge...
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    century there was urban development in Wellington and Madeley, where Wenlock Priory founded a new town. Six monastic houses, founded in the 11th and 12th...
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  • is probably the Eadric son of Ælfric who held two estates from Much Wenlock Priory (Shropshire). Eadric and his cousin Siward ranked as the wealthiest...
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  • Retrieved 12 February 2024. "Stokesay Castle". Historic England. Retrieved 11 February 2024. "Wenlock Priory". Historic England. Retrieved 11 February 2024....
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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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    Dissolution of the Monasteries, Madeley and the adjacent Little Wenlock belonged to Much Wenlock Priory. At the Dissolution there was a bloomsmithy called "Caldebroke...
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  • Introduction; St Mary's nunnery site English Heritage website, History of Wenlock Priory Gutenberg website, Medieval English Nunneries (ed. G G Coulton, Chapter...
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    Generally one was away, heading Morville Priory, a dependent monastic cell between Bridgnorth and Much Wenlock. In addition to the canonical hours there...
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    used to be the home farm of Buildwas Abbey and Wenlock Priory, a few miles away near the town of Much Wenlock. Listed buildings in Cound Media related to...
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    and Crafts of Boston (1904–1917) Warren, H.Langford (1891). "Notes on Wenlock Priory". The Architectural Review. 1 (1 Pages 1-4 and No 6 Pages 49-51). ——...
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  • Cleestanton, due to its connections with Wenlock Priory, would later form part of the franchise of Wenlock — see the section in the Patton article. The...
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    aftermath of the dissolution of the monasteries, which saw the powers of Wenlock Priory suppressed, civic leaders sought a new meeting place to conduct the...
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    Shropshire in 1109. It is possible that Alan was the founder of the original priory, or even that it began before his time, as a small eremitic community, towards...
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    either side of the river. It must also have been important to nearby Wenlock Priory: a litigious and sometimes violent community, but there is no record...
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