Located near Bourne in Lincolnshire, Sempringham is now a small hamlet that gives little clue to the history entwined within its parish boundary. Located in flat fenland, Sempringham is difficult to find, and included in the parish are Millthorpe, the fens of Pointon, Neslam and Aslackby and a part of the Hundred Fen at Gosberton Clough. Bourne may refer to: the anglo-saxon word for river, which is commonly used in southern England as a name for a small river, particularly those which only flow during the winter — see winterbourne. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. ... A small village on a meandering section of the A15 road that runs between Sleaford and Bourne, in Lincolnshire. ...
In 1327, Edward III stayed at the Priory and granted Gwenllian a lifelong yearly pension of £20, but she died ten years later after 54 years of imprisonment by the order, on 7th June 1337 AD.
Map sources (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?TF105325_region:GB_scale:100000) for Sempringham
Gilbert of Sempringham (about 1083—4 February 1189/90) became the only Englishman to found a convent, mainly because the Cistercian monks at Citeaux declined his request to assist him in helping a group of women living with lay brothers and sisters, in 1148.
He was born at Sempringham in Lincolnshire, the son of Jocelin, an Anglo-Norman lord of the manor, who bucked the usual trend of the day and actively prevented his son from becoming a knight, instead packing him off to the University of Paris to study theology.
When he returned in 1120 AD he became a clerk in the household of Bishop Robert Bloet of Lincoln, started a school for boys and girls (the existing Primary School at Sempringham is still named after him) and was finally ordained by Robert's successor, Alexander.
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