Summary Page: Former House
Name: Blanchland, B.M.V.
Circary at the Time: Anglia Borealis
Years of Activity: 1165-1539
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Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 41)
Approximate modern location: Nine miles southeast of Hexham, Northumbria - west of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Elm-Number [See below]: 17*
Other Comments: The church remains as an Anglican church, and virtually the entire village is the converted remains of the cloister, gatehouse, and other buildings.
* 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.