Brightley Priory was founded in 1133 as a Cistercian monastery. It was built in 1136 and was situated about two miles north of Okehampton in Devon and was abandoned by the monks after only 5 years on their removal to a nearby site which became Forde Abbey.
Between 1133 and 1136, Richard FitzBaldwin , feudal baron of Okehampton, built a priory on his land at Brightley, on the bank of the West Okement River, near his caput of Okehampton Castle. He dedicated it to the Virgin Mary and invited Gilbert, Abbot of Waverley in Surrey, to send 12 monks and an abbot to form a new Cistercian community there.
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