The house was centred on a pre-existing chapel on the present Low Melwood Farm, between Owston Ferry and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme, which according to a papal bull of 1398 "was called anciently the Priory of the Wood".
[1] The full name of the monastery was The House of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The prior, Saint Augustine Webster, was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1535 for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and later martyred and canonised.
Afterwards the buildings were converted by John Candysshe into a house: parts still survive as do some earthworks.
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