St Mary's Abbey, Evesham, Abbey of St Mary
Dates: Benedictine abbey; medieval institution, dissolved in 1540
Biography
The Benedictine abbey at Evesham was a major medieval religious landholder in Worcestershire and is specifically named in the Domesday evidence for Acton.
Notes / Sources
Research sources:
- Victoria County History, Worcestershire, volume I, discussion of the Worcestershire Domesday Survey; C. W. M. Pratt, 'An Interpretation of a Tudor Manorial Survey of Acton Beauchamp,' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, volume 50, 2001, pp. 185 and 215-220. — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AVCH_Worcestershire_1.djvu/339
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