The Abbot's Chair is the common name of a former monastic cross, the
Charlesworth Cross. Only the socket remains of this boundary cross, built by the monks of
Basingwerk Abbey
Basingwerk Abbey ( cy, Abaty Dinas Basing) is a Grade I listed ruined abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. The abbey, which was founded in the 12th century, belonged to the Order of Cistercians. It maintained significant lands in the Englis ...
in
North Wales
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.
Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (french: link=no, Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress, or Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189, and as such, was the first Angevin king ...
gave the manor of Glossop to the monks, and they gained a
market charter
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for Glossop in 1290, and one for Charlesworth in 1328. In 1433 the monks leased all of
Glossopdale
Glossopdale is the area around Glossop, Derbyshire, England, the valley of the Glossop Brook.
It includes Glossop, Hadfield, Derbyshire, Hadfield, Charlesworth, Derbyshire, Charlesworth, Dinting, Dinting Vale, Higher Dinting, Padfield, Old Glossop ...
to the Talbot family, later
Earls of Shrewsbury
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.
It is close to the town of
Glossop in the
High Peak borough of the English county of
Derbyshire
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, on the so-called Monks Road,
near the entrance track to Taiga Farm. The monks used this route in order to reach
Hayfield,
Simmondley and other villages.
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* List of settlements in Derbyshire by population
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References
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