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Clatford Priory, also called Hullavington Priory, was a priory in
Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to ...
, England. The churches at
Hullavington Hullavington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, just to the north of the M4 motorway. The village lies about southwest of Malmesbury and north of Chippenham. The Fosse Way, a Roman road, forms the western boundary of the par ...
and Surrendell, both southwest of Malmesbury, were granted to the
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abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux (
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, Seine-Maritime) in the late 11th or early 12th century, and the establishment later gained the manors of Hullavington and Clatford, west of Marlborough. Priors are intermittently recorded from 1261 until about 1390. In 1441 the priory's land was given to
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