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Hazleton Abbey was an abbey at Hazleton Manor Farm, just outside Rodmarton in
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,
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. It was formed in the 12th century. Monks from
Kingswood Abbey Kingswood Abbey was a Cistercian abbey, located in the village of Kingswood near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England. The abbey was demolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and all that remains is the gatehouse, a Grade 1 ...
bought the land after King Stephen had confiscated it from Reginald de Waleric. Ownership was disputed and Reginald de Waleric was ordered to found a Cistercian Abbey by the Pope and allowed the monks to return. A shortage of water meant that they later moved to
Tetbury Tetbury is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish inside the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon monastery was found ...
. It became
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after the dissolution of the monasteries. The former Abbey barn survives. Hazelton Manor was built on the site in the 16th century.


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