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Forde Abbey

Thorncombe, West Dorset District, Dorset, England

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Thorncombe, West Dorset District, Dorset TA20 4LU England

Coordinates: 50.84083, -2.91000
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Forde Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Dorset, now privately owned. It's location is actually Ford, Dorset, it's postal address is Chard, Somerset. It was originally built as a priory in 1133 by Richard de Brioniis on his land, who invited Gilbert, the Abbot of Waverley, Surrey, to send twelve monks for a new Cistercian. The land proved unfavorable, and they moved the priory about 1148 to his sister's land across the River Axe in the manor of Thorncombe, which came to be known as Forde. Abbot Charde became the vicar of Thorncombe at the abbey's dissolution in 1539. It was then leased from the crown for £49 a year.

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