Bradford on Avon Museum
… is a small volunteer-run museum of the natural and historical heritage of the town of Bradford on Avon and the villages around it -the historic area of the Hundred of Bradford- on the western edge of the County of Wiltshire, in south-west England.
This website aims to be a “Virtual Museum” of articles in the “Real Museum” collection, an...
Read MoreOld photographs: Monkton Farleigh
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Monkton Farleigh, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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.Rose Cottage, a house near the church, seen in a photograph on a postcard that was published by the Phoebus photographic studio in Bradford on Avon.
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Monkton Farleigh Priory
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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A monastery of Cluniac monks dedicated to St Mary Magdalene was founded at Farleigh in about 1125 by Humphrey de Bohun II, who died in 1131. He endowed it with his manor of Farleigh and most of it was confirmed by his son...
Read MoreMonkton Farleigh in Domesday Book
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Domesday Book resulted from a survey for taxation purposes that was ordered by King William I in 1086. It was written in a mixture of Latin and Old English as a series of abbreviations for terms that are unfamiliar today.
There are two entries for property in Monkton Farleigh in Domesday Book:
Brictric holds Farlege ...
Read MoreMonkton Farleigh
Monkton Farleigh (frequently written as Farley in the past) lies in the northwest corner of the Bradford Hundred area. Also at its highest point, rising to 200m. On the western and northern sides, steep wooded slopes go down into the valley of the Avon and a tributary, the By Brook, both in Somerset. It has boundaries with Bathford, Somerset on the west, Box on the...
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