Allerton Mauleverer Priory was a medieval monastic house in

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. The site is in

Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton is a civil parish in the Harrogate (borough), Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 130, increasing to 150 at the 2011 Census. As its name sugge ...

Parish in the

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of North Yorkshire. Richard Mauleverer founded the priory 1100 in the

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order and granted them tithes and lands. The site was granted to the Abbey of Marmoutier in

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in 1110 which made it an alien priory.

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