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Orford, Priory Farm
Orford, Priory Farm
Orford, Priory Farm

Orford Priory Farm, and part of the site of Orford Priory, which straddles the boundary between Binbrook and Stainton Le Vale. 

"A nun from Orford was excommunicated in 1491 by Bishop Redman for breach of her vow of chastity, her partner being a canon of Newsham.

There were seven nuns and a prioress when the priory was Dissolved in 1539"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orford_Priory  

DB 10 October 2018

Orford, Priory, Farm, Binbrook, Stainton Le Vale, Premonstratensian, nunnery, nun
Orford, Site Of Orford Priory
Orford, Site Of Orford Priory
Orford, Site Of Orford Priory

Part of the site of Orford Priory which straddles the boundary between Binbrook and Stainton Le Vale.

"The remains of the Premonstratensian nunnery of Orford survive as a substantial group of earthworks"

"The Premonstratensian canonesses at Orford first appear in documents of the period 1155-1160.

The nunnery church and land were traditionally granted to Newsham Abbey by Ralph de Aubigny in the time of Henry II (1154-1189).

At its dissolution in 1539 the nunnery was granted to Robert Tyrwhitt who, in common with his successors, let the site"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007809 

DB 10 October 2018

Orford, Priory, Binbrook, Stainton Le Vale, Premonstratensian, nunnery