Forde Abbey (approximately 1142-approximately 1539)

found: Abbey website, viewed Feb. 25, 2014:House/History Foundation (In 1136 Richard de Brioniis founded a cistercian monastery at Brightley, in Devon ... land too barren, forcing the monks to return to the mother house in Surrey in 1141. On their journey they met their former patron's sister and heir who offered them the use of the Manor of Throncombe and a site on the River Axe ... within 7 years the monastery of Forde Abbey was built); Dissolution (Abbot Chard - the last abbot - succeeded in 1521 ... work was interrupted in 1539 by the dissolution of the larger monasteries. Chard .. handed Forde Abbey quietly over to the Crown) Modern Forde Abbey (In the 1970's [the owners] turned Forde Abbey into a tourist attraction))

found: The Story of Ford Abbey; Digitized book, viewed Feb. 25, 2014 :t.p. (Ford Abbey)

found: Wikipedia article on Forde Abbey, viewed Feb. 26, 2014 :(Forde Abbey) History (... new priory which came to be known as "Ford" due to its proximity to an old river crossing) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forde_Abbey

found: Wikipedia, viewed 14 February 2020(Forde Abbey is located in the village and civil parish of Thorncombe, Dorset with a postal address in Chard, Somerset)