Cammeringham Priory was a priory in Cammeringham,

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, England, and was one of nine

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houses in the historical county. It was an

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granted by 1126 to the abbey of L'Essay in the

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, by Robert de Haya, with the advice of his wife Muriel, and also to the

abbey of Blanchelande in

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. A dispute arose between the two abbeys, which was settled in favour of Blanchelande in 1192, by William

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. The

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of the priory passed first to Alice, countess of Lancaster, and from her to Hugh le Despenser, 1st in 1325. Shortly afterwards it reverted to the King. In 1396 the abbot of Blanchelande sold all his rights in the house to the

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abbot of Hulton in

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. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was granted to Robert Tyrwhitt. Cammeringham Manor House, built around 1730, retains the now blocked-up cellars of the priory, though there is no visible evidence above ground level.

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