Ellerton Priory was a

Gilbertine The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest. It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at th ...

priory that was historically in the

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. The ruins stand in the village of Ellerton, on

Spalding Moor Spalding Moor is a moor (in the sense of an area of low lying wetland) in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England. It lies between the River Derwent and the town of Market Weighton at the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. It forms part of the Hum ...

in the

. The priory was founded no later than 1207, during the reign of King John, by Peter de Goodmanham. The priory was dissolved in December 1538. The site of the priory is now a

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