At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries there were 282 monasteries and 92 nunneries.
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Abbotsbury Abbey (Dorset) – founded 1044
Abingdon Abbey (Oxon)- founded 954
Ankerwyke Priory (Berks) – founded 1160 (nuns)
Armathwaite Nunnery (Cumbria) (nuns)
Binham Priory, Norfolk
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Bardney Abbey (Lincs) – founded 1087
Bath Abbey (Somerset) – founded 1090 (This was a cathedral priory)
Battle Abbey (Sussex) – founded 1067
Beadlow Priory (Beds) – founded 1140
Binham Priory (Norfolk) – founded 1091
Birkenhead Priory (Merseyside) – founded 1150
Bishopgate St Helens (London) – founded 1258 (nuns)
Blyth Priory (Notts) – founded 1088
Boxgrove Priory (Sussex) –founded 1105
Bradwell Priory (Bucks) – founded 1136
Bromfield Priory (Shrops) – founded 1155
Bromhall Priory (Berks)- (nuns)
Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) – refounded 1020
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St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (Kent)- refounded 1070
Canterbury Cathedral-Priory (Kent) – refounded 997
Cerne Abbas (Dorset) – founded 987
Chepstow Priory
Chertsey Abbey (Surrey)
Chester Abbey (Cheshire)- founded 1092
Chester Priory (Cheshire)- founded 1140 (nuns)
Colchester St. John . This abbey was founded in 1096
Coventry Abbey (West Midlands) founded 1043
Croyland Abbey (Lincs) – founded 716
D
Deeping St James (Lincs)- founded 1139. This was a priory cell.
Deerhurst Priory- (Gloucs)- founded 1059 This priory still retains its Saxon monastic church.
Denny Abbey (Cambs) – founded 1159
King’s Mead Priory, Derby (Derbys)- founded 1149 (nuns)
St Martin’s Priory Dover (Kent) –founded 1136
Dunster Priory (Somerset) –founded 1090
Durham Cathedral Priory- founded 1083
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Elstow Abbey (Beds)- founded 1078 (nuns)
Ely Cathedral Priory (Cambs)- refounded 1083
Evesham Abbey (Worcs)- founded 995
St Nicholas’s Priory, Exeter (Deven) – founded 1087
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Finchdale Priory (Durham) – founded 1196. It was originally a hermitage for two monks.
Freiston Priory (Lincs) – founded 1114.
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Glastonbury Abbey (Somerset) – refounded c. 1189
Gloucester Cathedral Priory (Gloucs)- founded 1058
Great Malvern Priory (Worcs)- founded 1085
Great Yarmouth Priory (Norfolk)- founded 1101
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St Faith’s Priory Horsham (Norfolk)- founded 1105
Hurley Priory (Berks)- founded 1087
I
Isleham Priory (Cambs)- founded 1100
J
Jarrow Priory (Tyne and Wear) – founded 1074
K
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St Mary’s Priory Lancaster (Lancs)- founded 1094
Lastingham Abbey (Yorks)- founded 1078
Leominster Priory (Hereford) – founded 1123 Initially this priory was founded for nuns but later they were replaced by monks.
Leonard Stanley Priory (Gloucs) – founded 1146
Lindesfarne Priory (Northumberland) -refounded 1083
Little Malvern Priory (Worcs) – founded 1171
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Malmsebury Abbey (Wilts)- founded 970
Milton Abbey (Dorset)- founded 964
Minster-in-Sheppey Priory (Kent) – refounded 1087 (nuns)
Monk Bretton Priory (Yorks)
Monk Sherbourne Priory (Hamps)- founded 1130
Monkwearmouth (Tyne and Wear) – founded 1083 This was a priory cell.
Morville (Shrops)- founded 1138 This was a priory cell.
Muchelney Abbey (Somerset) – refounded 939
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Norwich Cathedral-Priory (Norfolk) – founded 1095
Nun Monkton (Yorks) (nuns)
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P
Pershore Abbey (Worcs)- founded 970
Perborough Abbey (Cambs) – founded 966
Pilton Priory (Devon)- founded 1200
R
Ramsey Abbey (Cambs)- founded 969
Reading Abbey (Berks)- founded 1121
Rochester Cathedral Priory (Kent) – refounded 1080
Romsey Abbey (Hamps)- founded 967 (nuns)
St Martin’s Abbey, Richmond (Yorks) founded 1137
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St Albans Cathedral-Prioy (Herts) – refounded 1077
St Bees Priory (Cumbria) –founded 1120
St Benet of Hulme Abbey (Norfolk) – founded1019
St Michael’s Mount (Cornwall)- founded 1050
Seaton Priory (Cumbria)- founded 1190 (nuns)
Selby Abbey (Yorks)- founded 1069
Sherbourne Abbey (Dorset)- founded 993
Shrewsbury Abbey (Shropshire) – founded 1083
Steventon Priory (Oxon) –founded 1135
Stogursey Priory (Someset) – founded 1107
Stoke-By-Clare Priory (Suffolk) – founded 1124
Swavesey Priory (Cambs)- founded1086
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Tavistock Abbey (Devon) – founded 980
Tewkesbury Abbey (Gloucs)- refounded 1102
Thorney Abbey (Cambs)- founded 973
Tutbury Priory (Staffs) – founded 1080
Tynemouth Priory (Tyne and Wear) – refounded 1089
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Upholland Priory (Greater Manchester)- founded 1319
Usk Abbey
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Westminster Abbey (London)
Wetheral Priory (Cumbria) – founded 1106
Whitby Abbey (Yorks)- refounded 1078
Wilmington Priory (Sussex)- founded 1086
Winchester Cathedral-Priory (Hamps) –founded 1079
Worcester Cathedral-Priory (Worcs) – refounded 961
Wymondham Abbey (Norfolk) – founded 1107
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Holy Trinity Priory, York. – founded1089
St Mary’s Abbey, York – founded 1088