Garendon Abbey
 Location within Leicestershire
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| Monastery information | |
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| Order | Cistercian |
| Established | 1133 |
| Disestablished | 1536 |
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| Founder(s) | Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester |
| Site | |
| Location | Between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, England |
| Coordinates | 52°46′27″N 1°15′31″W / 52.7743°N 1.2585°WCoordinates: 52°46′27″N 1°15′31″W / 52.7743°N 1.2585°W |
| Visible remains | Foundations of Chapter house visible but on private land. |
Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
Garendon was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1133, and was probably a daughter house of Waverley Abbey in Surrey. Garendon was one of a number of religious establishments founded or patronised by Robert. He endowed the abbey with 690 acres of land in Garendon, a Burgage tenement in Leicester and land at Dishley, Shepshed and Ringolthorpe.
Within a century of foundation, the abbey gained lands at Burton on the Wolds, Eastwell, , Stanton under Bardon and Welby, all in Leicestershire; land at , Nottinghamshire; and at Heathcote, Derbyshire. Monastic granges were then developed near the abbey, and at Burton on the Wolds, Dishley, Goadby, Ibstock, Ringolthorpe, Stanton Under Bardon and Welby in Leicestershire; at Costock and Rempstone, Nottinghamshire; and in the Peak District, in Derbyshire. Through these granges the abbey conducted sheep farming "on a considerable scale".
The abbey also gained two daughter houses, Biddlesden Abbey in Buckinghamshire, and Bordesley Abbey in Worcestershire.
By the end of the 13th century, the abbey had fallen on hard times. The abbey had acquired debts of £120 and in 1295 the King had appointed a "special keeper" to administer the abbey's finance and deal with its debt problems.
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