Bruern

Coordinates: 51°52′01″N 1°38′10″W / 51.867°N 1.636°W / 51.867; -1.636

Bruern
Bruern  Bruern shown within Oxfordshire
Population	62 [citation needed]
OS grid reference	SP2518
Parish	Bruern
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	GL7
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Witney
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

Bruern or Bruern Abbey is a hamlet and civil parish on the River Evenlode about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Burford in West Oxfordshire.

Cistercian Abbey

House on the Bruern Abbey site.

In 1147 Nicholas Basset founded a Cistercian Abbey here^[1] as a daughter house of Waverley Abbey in Surrey. The Abbey owned property in west Oxfordshire, east Gloucestershire and at Priddy in Somerset.^[2] In 1382 the abbey also bought the manor of Fifield, Oxfordshire.^[2] The abbey was dissolved in October 1536.^[2]

After the dissolution the Abbey became the property of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, ancestor of the Cope Baronets. In 1720 a baroque country house was built for the Cope family, possibly on the site of the former abbey.^[3] A Georgian cottage in the grounds of the house includes a three-bay vaulted chamber which may be a remnant of the original abbey buildings.^[4]

Sources

• New, Anthony (1985). A Guide to the Abbeys of England And Wales. London: Constable. p. 80–81. ISBN 009463520X. 
• Page, William (Ed.) (1907). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 2. pp. 79–81. 
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 499–500. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 

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