Alnesbourne Priory, also known as Alnesbourn Priory, was a small Augustinian monastic house in the English county of

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.Wilson.J.M (1872) 'Nacton', ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales''
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. Retrieved 2011-04-30. It was located near

Nacton Nacton is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk (district), East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The parish is bounded by the neighbouring parishes of Levington to the east and Bucklesham in the north. It is located between the to ...

to the south-east of

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near the

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and the current route of the A14. The priory was probably founded in the 13th century by Albert de Neville, possibly as a satellite of Woodbridge Priory.Page.W (1975) 'Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Alnesbourn', ''A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2'', p. 91
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. Retrieved 2011-05-01.Page.A (1844) 'Alnesbourn Priory', ''Topographical and Genealogical, The County of Suffolk''

. Retrieved 2011-05-01. It was annexed by the monks of Woodbridge at some point in the 15th century, possibly 1466.Page.W (1975) 'Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Woodbridge', ''A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2'', pp. 111-112
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. Retrieved 2011-05-01.Brabner.J.H.F (ed) (1895) 'Alnesbourne Priory', ''The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5''

). Retrieved 2011-04-30.Lewis.S (ed) (1848) 'Allostock - Alnwick', ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'', pp. 39-44.
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. Retrieved 2011-05-01. The priory was "ruinous" by 1514, although remains of the priory church can be found in the walls of Alnesbourne Priory Country Club and form the basis for the listing of the building as a Grade II listed building.Alnesbourne Priory Country Club, Nacton
British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2011-05-01. The priory was in the old parish of Hallowtree or Halghetree, the church of which formed part of its holding. The village is mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

of 1086 as a very small village with about four households (which was held by the church of Alnesbourn St Andrew before the

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). One of these houses is likely to have been Pond Hall Farm.Alnesbourn
, Domesday Map. Retrieved 2011-05-01. At the time of the survey the village was held by

Roger of Poitou Roger the Poitevin or Roger de Poitou (mid-1060s – before 1140) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat possessing large holdings both in England and through his marriage in France during the early 12th century. He was the third son of Roger of Montg ...

. Alnesbourn Priory was an

extra-parochial area In England and Wales, an extra-parochial area, extra-parochial place or extra-parochial district was a geographically defined area considered to be outside any ecclesiastical or civil parish. Anomalies in the parochial system meant they had no ch ...

, it became a separate

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in 1858, on 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Nacton, part also went to Ipswich. In 1931 the parish had a population of 36.

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