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In our story, we introduce the Priory at Melwood. Today, all that remains are ruins on Low Melwood Farm, between Owston Ferry and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme.
This historic site, known as Axholme Priory or the Axholme Charterhouse, is believed to have been built on the site of a 12th-century Premonstratensian chapel. A papal document from 1398 records that this earlier chapel ‘was called anciently the Priory of the Wood’ and may have been dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Over time, its name...

In The Saracen’s Dagger, Anabel Prescote lost her partner, shop and home in the Great Fire of Southwark when the blaze tore through the south bank of the River Thames in July 1212. It remains one of the most devastating yet frequently overlooked tragedies in British history. While the famous blaze of 1666 dominates the public consciousness, this thirteenth-century inferno, which occurred during the reign of King John, resulted in a loss of human life that far exceeded that of its more famous...