Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Barlings, Assumption of the B.M.V.

Circary at the Time: Anglia Mediana

Years of Activity: 1154-1537

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Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 34)

Approximate modern location: Near Langworth Station, six miles to the east of Lincoln.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 28*

Other Comments: A notation from Mr. Ian Fleetwood, a local resident in the vicinity of Barlings Abbey:   "This Abbey is located in a chain of Abbeys and Priorys refered to in 'modern times' as Witham Abbeys, being located surrounding the River Witham."


* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.