Axholme

No individual entry for Axholme found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this priory in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The Carthusian monastery of Axholme was founded in 1395 or 1396 [...] When the commissioners arrived to take the surrender, there was no resistance. It was signed on 18 June, 1538, by the prior and eight monks." The entry for this priory in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1017487] notes: "The Carthusian priory was founded in 1395-96 for a prior and 12 monks by Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, at the site of a small 12th century Premonstratensian chapel dedicated to St Mary. [...] Axholme Priory was dissolved in 1539. In 1540, the charterhouse and estates in Owston and Hawkesey were granted to John Candysshe of Westbutterwick who converted the priory into a manor surrounded by gardens and orchards. [...] Geophysical survey has identified further wall lines within the island all around this building. These indicate further remains of the priory buildings and are thought to include the church, chapterhouse, and frater (refectory), together with the post-Dissolution manor house.