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Some Definitions

Dates

Many of these are very approximate, indeed many are unknown. Date Acquired refers to when the land/manor was either gifted to or bought by the Templars. Ideally, "Constructed" refers to the construction date of the earliest/main building(s) used by the Templars themselves, whether or not they were the builders, and whether or not still standing. Obviously, this is often not known.

Date Abandoned indicates abandonment of the building itself, rather than when it ceased to be a Templar property (since that date would be much the same for the majority of sites). On the suppression of the Order, many passed to other Orders, particularly the Hospitallers - sites are deemed abandoned only if they later fell into disuse. Rebuilt is largely to give the visitor (or viewer of the photographs) an idea of the approximate age of what is there today.

Obviously, the complex history of many of these sites makes a nonsense of such simplified definitions - we clarify where possible in the text!

Viewing Maps

Some of the maps linked to are at multimap.com, others at streetmap.co.uk - each site has its advantages and disadvantages, but streetmap seems to have improved recently, while multimap appears to have been 'dumbed down' somewhat. Both can be zoomed in and out to see the area in more detail or get a wider route map. On multimap, do use the "Printer Friendly" button before trying to print them out.

Latitude, Longitude, OS Grids

At this stage, we have basically used whatever data is most readily available for each site - mostly based on OS Landranger data kindly supplied by a friend of the Order. We have cross-checked that they are pretty close, but are not intended to give pinpoint accuracy. (It would be good to have accurate OS Refs and Latitude and Longitude for every site - if anybody would like to look up and convert any we have not had time to...)

Here is a good explanation of how the grid system used on the OS Landranger series maps works. We are only using six character references (two letters and four digits) - the references are intended to help you find a site, not to plot its precise location to the nearest yard!
http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support/gridreference.shtml

Conversions from OS Landranger to Lat/Long were done at the following site - we don't know anything about it but we are very grateful to them! http://www.obliquity.com/astro/osgb.html

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