Originally a monastery under the Cluniac order, Monk Bretton Priory is located in the village of Lundwood, in the borough of Barnsley, England.

In that year Sir William de Notton, a powerful local landowner, who was later Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and his wife Isabel, conveyed to him lands at Fishlake, Monk Bretton, Moseley and Woolley.

The date suggests that Notton made the grant as his way of giving thanks for England's deliverance from the first outbreak of the Black Death.

In 1580 the land was again sold to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury who gave the estate to his fourth son Henry on his marriage to Elizabeth Rayner.

More recently the site has been the focus of a survey and excavation project run by Dr Hugh Willmott from the University of Sheffield.