Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GROVEBURY

GROVEBURY, a manor in Leighton Buzzard parish, Beds. It was given by Henry II. to the nuns of Fontevralt in Normandy; became the site of an alien convent; and passed to the dean and canons of Windsor.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a manor"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Leighton Buzzard AP/CP       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Grovebury

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