The Augustinian abbey of St. Mary, Rocester was founded in Dovedale between 1141 and 1146 by Richard Bacon, a half brother-in-law of Ranulph, 6th Earl of Chester and a son-in-law of Hugh de Kevelioc, the previous earl.
At the time the abbey was dissolved there were only 9 monks there, including the abbot.
Most of the building was dismantled for its reusable materials and the land sold to Richard Trentham, the MP for Shropshire.
The site today is known as Abbey Fields and is an open space with traces of an earlier Roman Fort.
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