Kilpeck Priory was a

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, at . In 1134, William, son of Norman, gave the church of St David, Kilpeck, and the Chapel of St Mary to

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, and a Priory cell was established about 400 yards South East of the church, to house some monks displaced from

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by attacks of the Welsh. In 1428 the church was united to Gloucester. In 1320, there was a chantry chapel in the forest of

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, and its control was later disputed between Sir Baldwill of Trevville and the Prior of Kilpeck Priory.Kilpeck Timeline
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visited the site on 18 March 1979. Earthworks lie about seventy yards to the SSW of Priory Farm and are a slight platform and banks, so maybe the remains of the priory. The ground slopes away to the SW of the farmhouse and there appears to be a fishpond towards the lower part of the slope, now dry.

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