Monk Sherborne

The manor of Monk Sherborne was held in the reign of Edward the Confessor by Alnod Cild. At the time of the Domesday Survey it belonged to Hugh de Port, whose son Henry gave it to the Priory which he founded there as a cell of St. Vigor of Cerisy in Normandy.

Regarded as an alien priory by the civil authorities, it was taken into the king's hands in the fourteenth century. Edward IV granted the manor in 1462 to the Hospital of St. Julian, commonly called God's House at Southampton. This house had been granted to Queen's College, Oxford by Edward III and the lands and monuments of Monk Sherborne Priory consequently came in to the hands of the Provost and Fellows of that college. The college turned the fine Norman choir of the chapel into a parish church for the scattered forest village of Pamber.

Flints, pottery and crop marks discovered at Monk Sherborne indicate a prehistoric settlement in the parish, and extensive Roman finds including tiles, pottery and tesserae probably mark the site of a villa.

Further information on attractions to discover in the area and other interesting villages to visit is available.  For information on public services for Monk Sherborne please take a look at the Tadley local pages.