Ogbourne Priory was a priory in
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
, England, from the 12th century until the early 15th.
There may have been a priory building in the 13th century, perhaps attached to the manor house at either
Ogbourne St Andrew or
Ogbourne St George
Ogbourne St George is a village and civil parish on the River Og about north of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
History
Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a relatively large settlement of 71 households at ''Ocheborne'', corresponding to the la ...
; both manors belonged to the
Benedictine
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, foun ...
order of
Bec Abbey, Normandy. Later the priory existed only as a legal name for the administration of the Bec estates in England. The last Prior of Ogbourne, William de St. Vaast, died in 1404 or 1405 and the properties were dispersed.
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Monasteries in Wiltshire
Alien priories in England
Order of Saint Benedict
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