Minting Priory earthworks
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Minting Priory earthworks
Image: © Richard Croft Taken: 7 Mar 2015
Earthworks in a field marking the site of Minting Priory, founded in 1129 by Ranulf, Earl of Chester for Benedictine monks, it was dissolved in 1414 and the site granted to the Carthusian priory of Mount Grace in 1421 and thereafter used a grange.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.244402
Longitude
-0.225489