Croxden

Croxden Abbey was founded in 1176 by Bertram de Verdun, who lived in Alton Castle, for monks of the Cistercian Order.

The building was completed by about 1280 and survived until Henry VIII’s Dissolution of Monasteries in 1537. Although now mainly in ruins, the shell of the high west wall of the church with its tall lancet windows and doorway, the south transept and the chapter house remain.

The original foundation charter is now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the Croxden Chronicle is in the British Museum.

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Anslow
Barton-Under-Needwood
Blithfield
Branston
Burton Upon Trent
Croxden
Dunstall
Ellastone
Hoar Cross
Mayfield
Newborough
Rocester
Rolleston On Dove
Tutbury
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