Canons Ashby (lost settlement), England

England

Canons Ashby (lost settlement), England shares 6 connections with 506 places across 4 topics, spanning medieval archaeology, religious history, and the dissolution of the monasteries. An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1105; when it dissolved in 1537, Sir John Cope acquired the land and recorded 2,000 sheep on the parish, a conversion that likely ended the village. Surviving earthworks indicate the settlement's former size, and medieval pottery sherds from the 13th and 14th centuries link it to broader archaeological networks. Its strongest ties run to Glendon, England.

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