Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURSTALL-GARTH

BURSTALL-GARTH, a manor in Skeffling parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 4½ miles SE of Patrington. A cell to a Benedictine Abbey near Albemarle in Normandy, was founded here, in the 12th century, by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle; passed to the monastery of Kirstall; and was eventually swept away by the sea.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a manor"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Skeffling CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Burstall Garth

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