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2 unusual facts about Goldcliff Priory


Goldcliff Priory

In 1334 the prior Phillip Gopillarius ("Philip de Gopylers") was charged—along with a monk, some clergy and fifty other persons from Newport, Nash, Goldcliff, Clevedon and Portishead—with stealing wine and other merchandise from a vessel wrecked at Goldcliff.

In 1113 the manor of Monksilver, near Williton in Somerset, was given by Robert de Chandos to endow his new priory.



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