Priory of Premonstratensian canonesses at Broadholme, founded before 1154 and dissolved in 1536. The only existing remains of Broadholme priory are built into the walls of the present Manor Farm. The chapel site is at the back of the house; the cemetery seems to have been to the east where the orchard is now. The field in which the present house stands has many traces of fishponds. In 1962 Harper reported that Manor Farm showed no structural evidence of an early building. Two irregular ponds to the south were filled in about 10 years previously; there was no other suggestion of earthworks. {1} See Cole 1905 for a detailed history.{3} The monument includes the remains of the medieval nunnery of St Mary, Broadholme. It was the first of only two nunneries of the Premonstratensian Order to be established in England in the Middle Ages. The remains of the nunnery include part of a raised platform and an area of ridge-and-furrow with associated earthworks. The platform, approximately 70m square, lies in the south-west part of the site and is raised approximately 1m above the level of the surrounding land. It is covered by a post-medieval farmhouse, garden, yard and drive, and has been cut away on the west by post-medieval farm buildings and on the south by modern ploughing. Finds made near the house include stone foundations, architectural fragments and a stone coffin, indicating that the platform is the site of the conventual church and associated domestic buildings. Architectural fragments believed to have derived from the remains of the nunnery are built into the farmhouse. Immediately east of the platform, and divided from it by a line of mature hazels, is an area of orchard bounded on the north by an avenue of trees and on the south and east by a fence. In this area human burials have been found, aligned east-west, indicating the site of the conventual cemetery. To the north of both the platform and the orchard lies an area of degraded ridge-and-furrow approximately 40m by 10m wide and other earthworks associated with the conventual precinct. {4}