We purchased the property as Victorian, many years ago, after a medium visited us, she told us who was here and the age, since then I have been looking on the net for information which is coming on more and more.

We own 3/4 of the Aunay Sur odon, estate, the former home of the bishops/abbots etc… standing as if built yesterday, by the saxons, it’s very plain, I have been lightly researching the link to Gt Limber, owned by the same person earlier, than 1550 1160 on, Henry II’s chief constable. While he was based in the Uk he was constantly travelling signing and witnessing documents throughout the Uk, returning rarely to Aunay,,which was the main benificary of any monies and running on a skeleton of Monks the others busy in the Uk building places like Croxton Abbey etc and renting lands, all the wealth came back here hence the walls everyhere. Aulnay is another village nothing to do with Aunay just a spelling error like so many names..

We have found a number of Templar links on the estate but never believed they were real, we do now..
The reason this place survived is simple, is was hidden in a very thick forest and no one except the monk knew of it’s exisitance, its only in the past few hundred years since the french have used the timber for fires have cleared the land to create stunning fields all around. We have just found the tunnel which goes from the bishops home to the mother church so they did’nt get wet.. on their way to prayer.

Rod if you want to come out for a look, email us.. we are out there early summer.

There was a Romano-British burial found in the back garden of the Vicarage in 1949.

Regards,
James