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A History of the County of Stafford
… from a market place next to the site of the medieval abbey. The abbey church was also used by the townspeople and so remained … the earliest being New Street which stretched from the abbey gates towards the line of the Roman road, Ryknild …
A History of the County of Stafford
… parish church was also the church of a Benedictine abbey, with the laity being confined to part of the nave, and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… through a manor court which had jurisdiction over the abbey's tenants in Burton itself and in the outlying … Fees A 20 s. annual fee called the sheriff's aid which the abbey was paying in 1535 may have been a survival of the mid … right to hold views of frankpledge at Burton. 4 The abbey also paid a fee called palfrey money, which Sir William …
A History of the County of Stafford
… later townships of Burton and Burton Extra. 7 In 1086 the abbey had land assessed for tax on 1 1/2 hides at Burton, … manor of the king in free alms in the later 1270s. 12 The abbey was dissolved in 1539 and its estates at Burton were … Burton family. John Blount, a butcher, took a lease of the abbey's grange at Branston in 1431 and was a burgess of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burton-upon-Trent Monastic precinct Monastic precinct The abbey church stood beside an arm of the river Trent at the … cloister, 11 the hall survives as part of the present Abbey inn. One wing of the present Manor House dates from the … site cannot be identified. 13 There was a house for the abbey's lay chamberlain by the later 13th century, and in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Stafford-shire Borough Council (1997). Charters of Burton Abbey, ed. Sawyer, p. 55. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 43-4, 58-9; … at Stapenhill may be explained by a re-organization of the abbey's land there: below, Stapenhill, manor. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… house was opened in 1930 in a converted brewery office in Abbey Street. 10 That meeting was closed in 1973 when the few …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 10 Hay ditch, mentioned in 1336, ran from north of the abbey church along the back of tenements in High Street to … which formed a raised footpath along High Street near the abbey precinct and started to pave the street. He also built …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 8 A circus owner named John Swallow was staying in Abbey Street in 1871, together with his troop of equestrians. … place in 1810; it survived until 1866. 1 The present Abbey Lodge was consecrated in 1854 and first met in High … opposite the market square. In 1910 it moved into the Abbey (the present Abbey inn) in the former monastic …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… one mile to the west, and forming in monastic times an abbey grange. Here is a chalybeate spring. Burton-Fleming, or … afterwards granted the church, and certain lands, to the abbey of St. Mary at York, with which the property remained …