GARENDQN, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the
western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of
LEICESTER, 2 miles (W;) from Loughborough, containing
43 inhabitants. An abbey for Cistercian monks,
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, was founded here in
1133, by Robert Bossu, Earl of Leicester, the revenue
,of which, at the dissolution, amounted to £186. 15. 2.