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'The Grange' was a possession of
Flaxley Abbey. Flaxley was founded as a house of Cistercian
monks some time between 1151 and 1154, by Roger, son of Milo
Fitzwalter, Earl of Hereford. By tradition the monastery was
built on the spot where Milo had been killed in a hunting
accident in 1143.
Never a rich house, it held the manors of
Blaisdon and Wallmore, and besides Littledean, lands in Newnham,
Polton, Howle, Goodrich, Climperwell, Arlingham, Dymock,
Newland, Coleford and Staunton. |
