Flaxley Abbey
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Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a private residence, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
[edit] History
Flaxley Abbey was founded in 1148 by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford. It was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536-37 and its lands and manor were granted to Sir William Kingston.
It was purchased in 1642 by the London merchant James Boevey, with his half-brother William.[1] Later residents included Catherina Boevey, an inheritance from her short marriage to William Boevey, and the house passed to Thomas Crawley (later styled Crawley-Boevey) at her death in 1727.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Porter, M. H., "Boevey, James", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/70859
- ^ 'Flaxley', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 138-150. Date accessed: 16 October 2010.
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