Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (25)Beaulieu River
Beaulieu Abbey
White Monks
Cistercian Monks
The shore from Caldshore to Christes-Chirch Twinham.
From Cauldshore Castelle upward by south west a ... brekith in a creeke that goith up into the land a 3. or 4. miles, and at the hedde of this creeke was Bewley, an abbay of White Monkes, a tounlet and a certen teritorie of ground privilegid with sanctuarie.
Minns:- The situation of Bealieu abbey on the river Exe, in the eastern part of the New Forest, is not less beautiful than that of Netley. The most perfect part is the refectory, now converted into the Parish Church. the other ruins consist of a part of the cloisters, the dormitory, and the kitchen, and a portion of the abbot's lodgings converted into a residence which is occupied by the proprietor, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
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