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    Conishead Priory is a large Gothic Revival building on the Furness peninsula near Ulverston in Cumbria. The priory's name translates literally as "King's...
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    of the Lakes’. In the 14th century Augustinian canons from nearby Conishead Priory built a small chapel on the island to serve the needs of travellers...
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  • situated at Conishead Priory in Cumbria, England from 1976 until its dissolution in 1991. In 1991 its assets, including Conishead Priory, were transferred...
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  • and control over Manjushri Institute. Manjushri Institute purchases Conishead Priory, a neglected Victorian mansion in Ulverston, England is purchased for...
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    and Buddhism prevailing as the first and second most common groups. Conishead Priory, the first Kadampa Buddhist centre in the west, is home to around 100...
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    Armathwaite Nunnery Calder Abbey CARLISLE (see below) Cartmel Priory Chapel-le-Wood Cell Conishead Priory Dacre Abbey (prob. site) Furness Abbey Hawkshead Grange...
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    headquartered in the Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre whom purchased Conishead Priory in 1976. Buddhism is Ulverston's second largest religion after Christianity...
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    Rinpoche. According to Richard Spanswick, "Since taking up residence at Conishead Priory, Kelsang has been working to produce a complete set of instructions...
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    panelling removed from Canon Winder Hall, Flookburgh, a chimneypiece from Conishead Priory, and a pair of Baroque barley-sugar columns. In the Paley and Austin...
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    Tashi Tsering. The Manjushri Institute, a large Buddhist college at Conishead Priory in Cumbria, was founded in 1976 under the guidance of Thubten Yeshe...
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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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  • Cardew Lodge Castle Head Cliburn Hall Clifton Hall Cockermouth Castle Conishead Priory Coniston Hall Corby Castle Cowmire Hall Dalemain Dallam Tower Dalton...
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  • Buddhist Community). The Manjushri Institute, a large Buddhist college at Conishead Priory in Cumbria, was founded under the guidance of the Tibetan Gelugpa monk...
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  • Bradyll (1689–1748) was an English politician and businessman. Born at Conishead Priory, Lancashire, to merchant John Bradyll and Sarah, the daughter of Miles...
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    Georgia Stanway Jubilee Bridge, linking Barrow Island and Walney Island Conishead Priory, near Ulverston Piel island and castle Scenery near Broughton in the...
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    to run to Bardsea and beyond, but the rails never got closer than Conishead Priory, about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. The line closed in 1917. Bardsea...
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    Barrow-in-Furness Power Station Roose Furness Abbey Dalton Lindal Ulverston to Conishead Priory to Lakeside River Leven Cark and Cartmel Wraysholme Halt Kents Bank...
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    stripped much of its interior features to use at his main house of Conishead Priory at Ulverston. He then rented the hall out to handloom weavers before...
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    Wilson Gale was to become representative of the family of Braddyll of Conishead Priory near Ulverston, and in consequence he added that name to his own in...
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  • Heritage List for England, retrieved 16 May 2017 Historic England, "Conishead Priory, Ulverston (1270176)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
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  • Sir Jeffry Wyatville (born Wyatt). His two major commissions were Conishead Priory (1821–36), a large Gothic Revival mansion in Lancashire and Wynyard...
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  • Derbyshire Championships 1885, 1888, 1893–94, 1896, 1901, 1906 Maude Garfit Conishead Priory Open 1901–07 Dorothea Douglass Kent Championships 1901–02, 1904–06...
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    at Grizedale Hall POW camp. He suffered a stroke and died at nearby Conishead Priory Military Hospital. He was later reburied at Cannock Chase German Military...
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    were Furness Abbey, Calder Abbey, the nunnery at Seaton Priory, Shap Abbey, Conishead Priory and Calder Abbey). In addition, Scottish (Catholic) influence...
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    Conishead Priory near Ulverston...
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    Burscough Priory Cockerham Priory Cockersand Abbey Heysham Monastery(?) Hornby Priory LANCASTER (see below) Lytham Priory Penwortham Priory Preston Friary...
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    for the chapel built here in the 14th century by monks from nearby Conishead Priory to serve the needs of travellers and fishermen on the sands of Morecambe...
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  • active was the production of souvenir cards for convalescing miners at Conishead Priory, then owned by the Durham Miners Welfare Committee. Demand grew for...
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    riots. He was appointed commissioner for the survey of Cartmel Priory and Conishead Priory in 1536: Sir Thomas Wharton wrote approvingly of him to Cromwell...
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  • relief main line between Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. Line to Conishead Priory from former place opened 1883, rest abandoned. Gifford and Garvald...
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