PLACE NAME Flaxley Abbey near the village of Flaxley in Gloucestershire is a former Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151 by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd…
PLACE NAME Flaxley Abbey near the village of Flaxley in Gloucestershire is a former Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151 by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd…
PLACE NAME Hyde Abbey was a medieval Benedictine monastery just outside the walls of Winchester, Hampshire. It was built in 1109…
PLACE NAME Hartland Abbey, in Hartland, Devon, is a former abbey built in 1157 and consecrated by Bishop Bartholomew of Exeter…
PLACE NAME The village of Hunston, in West Sussex. Originally spelt Hunestan, it is literally translated from Old English as…
PLACE NAME Kirkstead Abbey, in Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, is a former Cistercian monastery founded in 1139 by Hugh Brito, (or Hugh…
PLACE NAME Keynsham Abbey in the town of Keynsham, Somerset, was founded as a house for Augustinian canons in about…
PLACE NAME Hexham Abbey was first established in AD674 when Etheldreda, Queen of Northumbria granted the lands of Hexhamshire for a…
PLACE NAME In 1214, King John gave the manor of Hales, Shropshire, to Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, to…
Place Name Originally Canal Bank, it took its current name in the 1930s. It alludes to the nearby Surrey Canal…
Place Name Commemorating the visits to Eltham Palace of King John II of France (April 26, 1319 – April 8, 1364),…