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Nostell Priory (mansion) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 53 39 01 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.6500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 23 03 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.3890 decimal degrees |
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Note: Now an 18th-century mansion with work by Robert Adam and Thomas Chippendale. Ilbert's son Robert gave the land to the Augustians, whose 12th-century priory was on the site of a Saxon hermitage. The canons of Nostell once worked the coal seams. |
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| Nostell Priory (preferred,C,V)
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| Nostell (H,V)
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| Osle (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Osele (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Wakefield (urban district) (P) |
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