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Newenham Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Devon England a short distance south-west of the town of Axminster. The land was granted by Reginald de Mohun for the founding of the abbey in January 1247 and the foundation charter was witnessed by Richard Bishop of Exeter. The mother house of Newenham was Beaulieu Abbey.The abbey suffered greatly at the time of the Black Death in 1349 losing almost all its monks.