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• Monks Horton
  ...Monks Horton - geograph.org.uk - 340892.jpg|thumb|The Church of St Peter, Monks Horton]] ...om there having been a mediæval priory built here.<ref>'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Monkshorton', in W. Page (ed.), ''A History of the County of
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• Monks Risborough
  |picture=Monks Risborough- St Dunstans Church.jpg '''Monks Risborough''' is a village and ancient parish in the [[Aylesbury Hundred]]
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• Monks Kirby
  |picture=St Edith's Church, Monks Kirby.jpg ...ourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126650&c=Monks+Kirby&d=16&e=62&g=6471906&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1451472335953&enc
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• Monks Brook
  [[File:Monks Brook in Chandlers Ford.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Monks Brook flowing through Chandler's Ford]] '''Monks Brook''' is a river in [[Hampshire]], and which is a tributary of the [[Riv
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• Monks Eleigh
  |picture caption=Monks Eleigh '''Monks Eleigh''' is a village and parish in the [[Babergh]] hundred of [[Suffolk]]
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• Somerton
  ...carved roof, with lions and a small cider barrel purportedly carved by the monks of [[Muchelney Abbey]].<ref name="IoE">{{NHLE|1056695|Church of St Michael
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• Cambridgeshire
  ...e example of a Roman road with Roman paving still in place. Bede wrote of monks rowing to collect stone from an old Roman town near Cambridge which he call
  10 KB (1,429 words) - 17:11, 16 May 2020
• Northumberland
  ...Bamburgh]], also called ''Holy Island'', that Christianity flourished when monks from Iona were sent to convert the English. Lindisfarne was the home of the
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• Renfrewshire
  ...ed, first at [[Renfrew]] but shortly afterwards at [[Paisley]], a house of monks of the Cluniac order drawn from the priory of [[Much Wenlock]], in his nati
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• Somerset
  ...cal associations. Another mediaeval legend once promoted by the mediæval monks imagined a visit to Glastonbury by the Jesus himself when a boy, accompanie ...based on a plain fiction, namely the alleged foundation of a community of monks in the year 63 by Joseph of Arimathea. For good measure, the legend added t
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• Surrey
  ...ngland, Waverley Abbey, was founded in 1128. Over the next quarter-century monks spread out from here to found new houses, creating a network of twelve mona
  34 KB (5,328 words) - 17:09, 19 January 2021
• Abingdon
  ...t in protest at the Abbot's control of this market in which several of the monks were killed.
  20 KB (3,252 words) - 17:52, 19 May 2018
• Inverurie
  ...he [[Church of Scotland]]. It was founded in the 9th century by the Culdee monks on the left bank of the River Don at its junction with the Polnar Burn on t
  12 KB (1,994 words) - 17:34, 3 November 2023
• Forfar
  ...rch is built on the site of the original place of worship that some of the monks of Restenneth Priory built hundreds of years before the one today. The adjo
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• Arbroath
  Arbroath Abbey was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion in 1178 for monks of the Tironensian order from [[Kelso]] Abbey and consecrated in 1197, dedi ...and properties and was excommunicated and dismissed from office. When the monks of Arbroath Abbey selected Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity as Lindsay's r
  18 KB (2,717 words) - 17:38, 29 January 2016
• Littleport
  ...night, after drunken monks had denied him hospitality. After punishing the monks, the king made his host the mayor of a newly founded village.<ref>Beare, Be
  11 KB (1,601 words) - 09:54, 3 September 2018
• Troon
  ...1238. The convent was disestablished in 1238 and the chapel passed to the monks of Paisley Abbey.<ref>Paterson, page 422</ref>
  8 KB (1,367 words) - 15:10, 28 September 2010
• Chepstow
  ...the remains of which are buried under the adjoining car park. Benedictine monks from Cormeilles Abbey in Normandy, Chepstow's twin town, were there until t
  19 KB (3,086 words) - 09:14, 8 April 2017
• Conwy
  ...y Llywelyn the Great, but when King Edward I took the abbey site over, the monks were moved down the Conwy Valley to a new site at Maenan. The parish church
  4 KB (726 words) - 13:45, 28 November 2017
• Builth Wells
  ...gion was long thought to have been recorded in its final form by mediæval monks. Recent historical opinion has shifted to a view that it was written down
  8 KB (1,334 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
• Birkenhead
  ...the Mersey ferry began operating from Birkenhead in 1150 when Benedictine monks under Hamon de Mascy built a priory there.<ref>{{cite book|title=Birkenhead
  10 KB (1,551 words) - 11:11, 27 June 2016
• Kirkcaldy
  ...lcolm III bought the land around the modern town to grant as a gift to the monks of Dunfermline Abbey to serve as an endowment for the building of their new ...middle of the 15th century meant the town became semi-independent from the monks of Dunfermline Abbey. Full independence was achieved by a charter for royal
  26 KB (3,903 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
• Elgin
  ...he city, or town rather, of Elgin; I say city, because in antient time the monks claim'd it for a city; and the cathedral shews, by its ruins, that it was a
  16 KB (2,641 words) - 12:08, 18 March 2021
• Southwell
  ...owned by Newstead Abbey, it had been thrown into the Abbey fishpond by the monks to save it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, then later discovered
  16 KB (2,527 words) - 13:05, 2 October 2014
• Jedburgh
  ...d made the church into a priory between 1118 and 1138, housing Augustinian monks from Beauvais in France. The abbey itself was founded in 1147.
  8 KB (1,340 words) - 09:20, 30 January 2021