Birstall Priory

Birstall Priory or Burstall Priory was a priory in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The priory was built around 1219 and continuing as an inhabited religious house until the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1541.^[1] Burstall Bank and Burstall Lane are still in existence near the north bank of the Humber Estuary, south of Skeffling, but Birstall Priory itself has long since been given up to the sea.^[2]

References

^ "Alien houses | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
^ Hobson, Bernard (2012). "9; Coastal Gains and Losses". East Riding of Yorkshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-107-69035-6.

External links

Genuki page about Skeffling and Birstall Priory

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[1] "Alien houses | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2017.

[2] Hobson, Bernard (2012). "9; Coastal Gains and Losses". East Riding of Yorkshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-107-69035-6.

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