Swineshead Abbey

No individual entry found for this Swineshead in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The abbey of Swineshead was founded by Robert de Gresley about the year 1148. [...] The monks who first settled there were a colony from Furness Abbey. [...] No complaint is recorded against the house at the time of suppression. It was dissolved simply because its revenue was less than £200 a year." The entry for this abbey in English Heritage [List Entry Number: 1018687] notes: "The monument includes the known extent of the earthwork and buried remains of part of the inner precint and an associated dylings field system of the Abbey of St Mary, a Cistercian monastery founded in the early 12th century by the lord of the manor, Robert de Gresley." The entry in EH PastScape [www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=352580] [accesed 23 April 2019] notes: "The remains of the Abbey of St Mary, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1134 Robert de Gresley. It was dissolved in 1536, with the first documented reuse of the site dating from 1607 when a farmhouse was built out of the abbey ruins by Sir John Lockton." [cf. BSI entry for Swineshead (Lincs.) for a medieval font in the village parish church]