In his history of Dieulacres Michael J Fisher mentions that some time after the accession of Elizabeth I the abbey site passed from the Bagnall family into the hands of the Rudyard family, and it was probably they who built the present Abbey Farm early in the seventeenth century.
The 14th-century Anglo Saxon poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which appears in the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript uses dialect words native to the Potteries, leading some scholars to believe that it was written by a monk from Dieulacres Abbey.
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This has led scholars to speculate that it was written by a monk from Dieulacres Abbey.
The manor of Swythamley was held by the Crown following the dissolution of Dieulacres Abbey and thereafter had several owners.
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