Brooke, Rutland

Brooke is a veelage in the coonty o Rutland in the East Midlands o Ingland. It is locatit aboot three mile (4.8 km) sooth-wast o Oakham. The veelage is near the stairt o the River Gwash near Braunston-in-Rutland; the river forms pairt o the parish bundary.

The parish church is dedicatit tae St Peter. The kirk appeared in the 2005 film adaptation o Pride & Prejudice.

A sma priory wis foondit at Brooke for Austin Canons, as a cell o St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth, apparently durin the third quarter o the 12t century.Parishes: Brooke', A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2 (1935), pp. 37-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66197&strquery=brooke priory  Date accessed: 17 January 2011. Brooke Priory School is now in Oakham.

The Brooke Reliquary wis discovered in c.1805 in the cellar o Priory Hoose. This sma enamelled casket dates frae the 13t Century an oreeginates frae the wirkshops in Limoges, Fraunce. It is nou on display at Rutland Coonty Museum.

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