Thorney Abbey, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was a medieval English Benedictine monastery at Thorney, Cambridgeshire in The Fens of Cambridgeshire...

Botolph of Thorney (/ˈbɒtʊlf/; also called Botolph, Botulph or Botulf; later known as Saint Botolph; died c. 680) was an English abbot and saint. He is...

unitary authority area in 1998. Thorney began as a Saxon settlement in about 500 AD. The existence of Thorney Abbey made the settlement an important...

existence dates from 973, when they were installed in the abbey at Thorney. Saint Torthred of Thorney was a saint and hermit of the ninth century in Anglo-Saxon...

Thorney Island was the eyot (or small island) on the River Thames, upstream of medieval London, where Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster...

of Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire by Thorney Abbey. Simon Hake, Alice Lyneham's husband, had been a tenant of Thorney Abbey. For a bibliography see James L...

called Thorney Island. This building has not survived, but archaeologists have found some pottery and foundations from this period on the abbey site. Between...

consulted with three Dutchmen as to the potential for draining his manor of Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire; his son, Francis Russell, famously continued the...

forced to resign his bishopric in January 1459, and was removed to Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire, where he doubtless remained[citation needed] until...

Swaffham Bulbeck Priory Swavesey Priory Thirling Cell (approx.) Thorney Abbey Waterbeach Abbey (site) Wittering Priory (suggested site) Barnwell Priory Chesterton...

the fee of Berkhamsted. (There were 10 "small virgates" to a hide.) Thorney Abbey had an estate at Charwelton: the Domesday Book records it has half a...

from 963 to 984, was actively seeking relics for his newly rebuilt Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire and sent his monks to Louth to raid Herefrith's shrine...

William II (1087–1100) granting a hundred court to be held in fee-farm by Thorney Abbey: William, king of the English, to all the sheriffs and barons of Huntingdonshire...

as a saint soon after her death. Her remains were moved once more to Thorney Abbey some time later. All three women are considered Saints. Ælfric Puttoc...

The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England, until its dissolution in 1539. It is in the town that grew...

Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the...

it became more widespread only after the translation of his relics to Thorney under Ethelwold c. 980. He is recognised as a saint by the Christian Church...

so-called Fen Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and Peterborough Abbey) as well as Spalding Priory. As major landowners...

Pampisford Hall Peckover House Quy Hall Ramsey Abbey House Sawston Hall Spinney Abbey Stibbington Hall Thorney Abbey House Thorpe Hall Toseland Hall Ufford Hall...

to win over Eustace by giving Ely the royal rights of patronage to Thorney Abbey. Eustace died at Reading on 3 February 1215 or on 4 February. He was...

September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2019. "University of Leicester - Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire – a Rare View of Medieval Life in the Fens". 18 March...

Anglo-Dutch War, and probably by a colony of French workers stationed near Thorney Abbey. Towards the northern end of the washes, the New Bedford River is joined...

dependency of Thorney Abbey. In 1139 Baldwin Fitz Gilbert established the Benedictine Priory of Saint James at Deeping as a cell of Thorney Abbey. The endowment...

Cuneswitha, and their kins woman, Tibba. Her remains were translated to Thorney Abbey some time later. Her feast day is celebrated on 6 March. She is remembered...

St Augustine's Abbey (founded as the Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul and changed after Augustine's death) was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent...

Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for...

Ramsey Abbey was a Benedictine abbey in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England. It was founded about AD 969 and dissolved in 1539...

Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England. The abbey was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings and dedicated...

London had two main focuses of growth, the area around Thorney Island, site of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster, and ribbon development...

Botwulf of Thorney. Medeshamstede is a well attested earlier name for Peterborough - which also has entries under its later name of 'Burh'. Thorney is close...