John is correct. There was a shortlived Cistercian abbey at Radmore, founded
c.1143, transferred to Stoneleigh in Warwickshire c.1154 (VCH Staffs III
225), so before 'late 12th/early 13th century', and never, I believe,
recorded as Beaudesert (or any variant). The spellings for Beaudesert in
Warwickshire show many forms with Bel-, a variation unrecorded for
Beaudesert in Staffs. Which tends to bring us back to Warks - but still no
abbey.
David Horovitz
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From: John Freeman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: [EPNL] belresort
> In a late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century charter which deals with the
> settlement of a dispute about the tithes of Wolverton (Warwicks) the
> two adjudicators are referred to as the abbots 'de Evesham et de
> belresort'. I don't recognise 'belresort' and would be most grateful if
> any member could suggest an identification of this place.
Could this be a form of Beaudesert (Warwicks or Staffs)? PNWarwicks
199 gives forms "Beltesert" 1291 and "Belteserd" 1282. I wonder if
"Belresort" is a misreading of the former. Was there an abbey at either
place? Possibly at the Staffs place, since an 1834 gazetteer says: "About
three miles NE of Cannock village, is the Marquis of Anglesey's beautiful
seat, Beaudesert Park, one moiety of which is in the liberty of Cannock
Wood, in this parish, and contains the vestiges of an extensive British
encampment, a little to the south of which is Radmoor, where there are some
remains of an Abbey of Cistercian monks..." But David Horovitz is the man
to confirm or deny this.
John Freeman
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