Coxford Priory or Broomsthorpe Priory was a monastic house in

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. An Augustinian Canons Regular establishment, initially founded around 1140 at the church of St Mary,

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by William Cheney, the community was transferred to a new site at Coxford ''c.''1216. The building there was constructed of flint with stone dressings and is now a grade II* listed ruin. The priory was dissolved in 1536.

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