More information : An alien Benedictine call, dependent on Bec-Hellouin,
was founded at Weedon Bec (SP 6359) some time after 1126. The house, for a prior & one or two monks, was before 1291 controlled from Ogbourne. In 1414 it was dissolved, and before 1461 the manor was granted to Eton College (1). There are no remains of either the priory or the grange, though the rights to have a gallows was traditionally remembered in 1720: Bridges records "A furlong in the common-field is yet called gallows-furlong, and the stump of the gallows is visible not far from the high road". (1-2)
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