Swavesey Priory was a medieval monastic house in the village of

Swavesey Swavesey is a village lying on the Prime Meridian in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 2,463. The village is situated 9 miles to the north west of Cambridge and 3 miles south east of St Ives. Listed as ''Suauesye'' in the Domesday ...

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. A church existed in Swavesey at the time of the

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, when Alan, Count of Richmond, granted it to the

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Abbey of St Sergius and St Bacchus in

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. The Abbey founded an alien priory in Swavesey by 1086. It ceased to function in 1539, during the dissolution of the monasteries. The site is now a

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