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Haswell Grange was a monastery in County Durham, England.

Towards the end of the twelfth century, certainly after 1180, Henry Pudsey, a son of Bishop Pudsey, having become possessed of the vills of Wingate and Haswell (Essewell), near Durham, founded a monastery at the latter place, and conferred both vills upon certain religious persons, probably canons of Gisburn, for its maintenance.

The newly founded monastery was called 'The Church of St. Mary of Haswell,' but it is doubtful whether the building of any church or religious house was actually begun at Haswell, as almost immediately afterwards the same, together with other and more extensive possessions, were conferred by Pudsey and others upon a newly founded monastery situated at Baxterwood, on the River Browney, about a mile from Durham. This site was probably chosen in preference to Haswell on account of its greater natural beauty.

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