Grovebury Priory
Grovebury Priory, also known as La Grave or Grava was a priory in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. It was established in 1164 and disestablished in 1414. Origins The beginnings of the Priory lie with a grant of the royal manor of Leighton made by Henry II to the abbess and convent of Fontevraud in 1164. It is probable that a house was built there for a cell of the Order not very long after. Hence Leighton manor was initially the sum total of the original endowment of the house. To this later there was added land belonging to Walter Pullan, worth 32 shillings. Some smaller gifts of land in Edlesborough and Stewkley, Buckinghamshire and in Studham. The value of the manor in Leighton in 1291 was £32, 6 shhilngs 8 pence; and other temporalities of the priory in the deanery of Dunstable amounted to £2, 2 shillings 2 pence. In 1302 the abbess of Fontevraud held one Knight's fee in Stewkley; in 1316 the manor of Leighton, and half a fee in Studham; in 1346 only half a fe ...
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Leighton Buzzard
Leighton Buzzard ( ) is a market town in Bedfordshire, England, in the southwest of the county and close to the Buckinghamshire border. It lies between Aylesbury, Tring, Luton/Dunstable and Milton Keynes, near the Chiltern Hills. It is northwest of Central London and linked to the capital by the Grand Union Canal and the West Coast Main Line. The built-up area extends on either side of the River Ouzel (here about 2 metres wide) to include its historically separate neighbour Linslade, and is administered by the Leighton-Linslade Town Council. History Foundation and development It is unclear when the town was initially founded, although some historians believe that there may have been settlement in the area from as early as 571. There are a number of theories concerning the derivation of the town's name; ‘Leighton’ came from Old English ''Lēah-tūn'', meaning 'farm in a clearing in the woods', and ‘Buzzard’ was added by the Dean of Lincoln, in whose diocese the town ...
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