Eustachia de Say[2] and her son Osbert FitzHugh gave the church located at Westwood to Fontevraud Abbey, in the Loire valley, where Henry II of England, his wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and their son Richard I (the Lionheart) are buried.
Soon afterwards, a small priory was erected at Westwood, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, for six Benedictine nuns.
[4] The last prioress, Joyce Acton, received at the dissolution an annual pension of ten pounds, on 11 March 1537.
When the Pakington family seat in the adjacent village of Hampton Lovett was burnt down during the English Civil War they moved to Westwood.
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