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Bruern
House on the Bruern Abbey site
BruernLocation within Oxfordshire
Population	62 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SP2518
Civil parish	Bruern
District	West Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Chipping Norton
Postcode district	OX7

Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central

UK Parliament	Witney
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°52′01″N 1°38′10″W / 51.867°N 1.636°W / 51.867; -1.636

Bruern or Bruern Abbey is a hamlet and civil parish on the River Evenlode about 6 miles (10 km) north of Burford in West Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish population as 62.

Cistercian Abbey

In 1147 Nicholas Basset founded a Cistercian Abbey here as a daughter house of Waverley Abbey in Surrey. The Abbey held property in west Oxfordshire, east Gloucestershire and at Priddy in Somerset. There seems to have been rebuilding work in the 13th century, as Henry III gave timber in 1232, and two altars were dedicated in 1250. By 1291, the community was heavily in debt, and financial problems continued throughout the later middle ages. In 1382 the abbey also bought the manor of Fifield, Oxfordshire. In 1532 a scandal erupted when Abbot Macy was found to have purchased his office from Cardinal Wolsey with the promise of 250 marks and 280 oak trees from the abbey estates. His attempts to recoup the costs from the abbey's income led to his deposition as abbot. At the Valor Ecclesiasticus survey of 1535 there were fifteen monks, and the abbey had a net income of £124, making it one of the smaller houses. The abbey was dissolved in October 1536. 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. 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. Michael Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook, purchased the 18th-century property in 2012. The Abbey has been completely refurbished under his ownership, including the installation of "a large and impressive cantilever stone staircase and twenty-five kilometres of data cabling' as well as a 'large underground car park".

References

"Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
Page 1907, p. 59.
^ Fawcett, Richard (1998). Robinson, David (ed.). The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain. London: Batsford. p. 74.
Page 1907, pp. 59–61.
Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 499–500.
Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 500.
Vickers, Alan. "Sympathetic Refurbishment of Bruern Abbey". The Wychwood. 36 (4). October–November 2015

Sources

New, Anthony (1985). A Guide to the Abbeys of England And Wales. London: Constable. pp. 80–81. ISBN 0-09-463520-X.
Page, William, ed. (1907). "9. The Abbey of Bruern". A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 2: Ecclesiastical History, etc. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 79–81.
Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 499–500. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

v t e The District of West Oxfordshire
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Towns	Burford Signet Upton Carterton Charlbury Chipping Norton Southcombe Witney Cogges Madley Park Woodstock
Large villages	Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney Aston Cote Shifford Chimney Bampton Lower Haddon Weald Brize Norton Ducklington Enstone Church Enstone Neat Enstone Chalford Cleveley Fulwell Gagingwell Lidstone Radford Eynsham Barnard Gate Freeland Hailey New Yatt Hanborough Church Hanborough Long Hanborough Milton-under-Wychwood Minster Lovell North Leigh East End Wilcote Shipton-under-Wychwood Standlake Brighthampton Steeple Barton Middle Barton Stonesfield
Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets)	Alvescot Ascott-under-Wychwood Ascott d'Oyley Ascott Earl Asthall Asthall Leigh Worsham Black Bourton Bladon Blenheim Broadwell Bruern Cassington Worton Chadlington Chastleton Chilson Shorthampton Churchill Clanfield Combe Cornbury and Wychwood Cornbury Wychwood Cornwell Crawley Curbridge Fawler Fifield Filkins and Broughton Poggs Filkins Broughton Poggs Finstock Fulbrook Glympton Grafton and Radcot Grafton Radcot Great Tew Hardwick-with-Yelford Hardwick Yelford Heythrop Dunthrop Holwell Idbury Bould Foscot Kelmscott Kencot Kiddington with Asterleigh Asterleigh Kiddington Over Kiddington Kingham Langford Leafield Lew Little Faringdon Little Tew Lyneham Northmoor Over Norton Ramsden Mount Skippett Rollright Great Rollright Little Rollright Rousham Salford Sandford St. Martin Ledwell Sarsden Shilton South Leigh Spelsbury Dean Taston Stanton Harcourt Swerford Swinbrook and Widford Swinbrook Widford Tackley Taynton Westcott Barton Westwell Wootton Dornford Hordley Worton Nether Worton Over Worton
Former districts and boroughs	Chipping Norton Rural District Municipal Borough of Chipping Norton Witney Urban District Witney Rural District Municipal Borough of Woodstock Woodstock Rural District
Former constituencies	Oxfordshire County Constituency Woodstock Borough Constituency Mid Oxfordshire or Woodstock County Constituency Henley County Constituency Mid Oxfordshire County Constituency
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