An Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded here in about 680 by King Merewalh of Mercia, whose abbess daughter Milburge was hailed as a saint. Her relics were miraculously re-discovered here in 1101, attracting both pilgrims and prosperity to the priory.
By then Wenlock had been re-founded by the Normans as a priory of Cluniac monks. It is the impressive remains of this medieval priory which survive today, everywhere reflecting the Cluniac love of elaborate decoration.
Much Wenlock Priory is a tourist attraction, one of the Benedictine monasteries in Much Wenlock, United Kingdom. It is located: 139 km from Birmingham, 620 km from London, 790 km from Dublin. Read further
