Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Thicket Priory

Thicket Priory, seat, Wheldrake par., in co. and 8 miles SE. of York; a nunnery was founded here in the time of Richard I.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Wheldrake AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Thicket

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