Monkton Farleigh is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, on high ground 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Bradford-on-Avon, and a similar distance east of the city of Bath. The parish includes the hamlets of Farleigh Wick and Pinckney Green. In the west and northwest the parish is bounded by Somerset.
It is known for its underground mines of Bath Stone, which were converted into one of the largest Ministry of Defence underground ammunition stores in the country.[2]
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MonktonFarleigh is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, on high ground 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Bradford-on-Avon, and a similar distance...
The Priory of St Mary Magdalene was a Cluniac priory in MonktonFarleigh, Wiltshire, England, in the 12th to 16th centuries. The priory was founded soon...
MonktonFarleigh Manor is a Grade I listed country house close to the village of MonktonFarleigh in Wiltshire, England. Built on the site of a Cluniac...
Somerset Farleigh House Farleigh Hungerford Castle East Farleigh, Kent MonktonFarleigh, Wiltshire West Farleigh, Kent Farleigh, Western Cape John Farleigh (1900–1965)...
Cluniac monks of the Order of Saint Benedict founded a monastery at MonktonFarleigh, acquiring land in the neighbourhood. On the Dissolution of the Monasteries...
2016. Hackman, Gill (2014). Stone to Build London: Portland's Legacy. MonktonFarleigh: Folly Books. ISBN 978-0-9564405-9-4. OCLC 910854593. Book includes...
the south (MonktonFarleigh); one in the north of England (Longtown, Cumbria); and one in the Midlands (Nesscliffe). While MonktonFarleigh came into operations...
(Nesscliffe, Shropshire); and one in the South of England at Tunnel quarry, MonktonFarleigh and Eastlays Ridge. During the 1930s, Tunnel Quarry was renovated by...
Stone to Build London: Portland's Legacy, Gill Hackman, Folly Books, MonktonFarleigh, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9564405-9-4. Book includes details of many of the...
at Longleat by Sir John Vernon before 1272. The Cluniac priory of MonktonFarleigh was founded by Humphrey II de Bohun in 1125; the Cistercian house at...
Ammunitions Depot serving the south of England, known as CAD Corsham or CAD MonktonFarleigh. The depot closed in 1964, although the site was retained by the Royal...
owned all the property within South Wraxall that had once belonged to MonktonFarleigh Priory. The manor was passed down through the Longs of Wraxall until...
2011. Besides Bradford on Avon, the school takes pupils from Atworth, MonktonFarleigh, Winsley, Limpley Stoke, South Wraxall, Bradford Leigh, Trowbridge...
at Lacock, Wiltshire, he was taken to the episcopal manor house of MonktonFarleigh where he died on 23 September 1571. He was buried in Salisbury Cathedral...
ISBN 0-89573-155-X. Hackman, Gill (2014). Stone to Build London: Portland's Legacy. MonktonFarleigh, Wilts: Folly Books. ISBN 978-0-9564405-9-4. OCLC 910854593. Stuart...
the scene of a fatal accident. The road summits at the turn-off to MonktonFarleigh, at an altitude of 144 metres. After this, the road quality improves...
Ballinger Griffith. He had no children by either marriage. They lived at MonktonFarleigh until he died on 26 June 1941, aged 78. Under-Secretary of State for...
Conock, Chirton 1710: William Benson of Amesbury 1711: Daniel Webb of MonktonFarleigh 1712: John Cox of Kemble, near Malmesbury 1713: John Smith, of Alton...
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