The site of a priory or grange dependent on the Cistercian abbey of Aurnay-sur-Odon. There is a rectangular enclosure with banks up to 5 feet high and there are many other buried foundations in the same field which probably represent the remains of the medieval village pasture. {1} A vast area of earthworks up to 1.5m high but difficult to interpret at ground level. {2} In existence pre-1157 and dissolved in 1393. {3} The monument includes the remains of a medieval manor house believed to have served as a camera of the Knights Hospitallers from the C14 to C16. In the late C12 the Knights Templar held the second largest manor in Great Limber, which they let to secular tenants; when the order was dissolved in the early C14 the estate passed to the Hospitallers and thereafter developed as a camera dependent on their Preceptory at Willoughton, from which it was administered as an agricultural estate under the management of a steward. In 1338 there was a large house, dovecote and garden on the site (see 52159). The remains of the camera are situated around and to the west of the farmyard and garden of the former Limber House. Immediately to the south-west of the present farmyard, in an area of pastureland, are the earthworks of a rectangular embanked enclosure. At its north-western corner the enclosure bank overlies an earlier, lower bank which runs northwards to form the western boundary of two rectangular closes on the same alignment as the main enclosure. The north-western part of the monument is occupied by an area of settlement remains representing the former eastern extent of the village of Great Limber. Both the camera and the settlement partly overlie the remains of earlier ridge and furrow cultivation. The area of the present farmyard and the site of Limber House are totally excluded from the scheduling. All modern standing buildings, modern paving, fences and gates are also excluded from the scheduling although the ground beneath them is included. There is a full description in the revised scheduling document 22688. {6}