POULTON, a parish in the hundred of BEWSBOROUGH,
lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 3
miles (W.) from Dovpr, containing 29 inhabitants. This
parish comprises only three houses, and has no church.
Here are the venerable ruins of Bradsole, or St. Radegund's
abbey, said to have been founded, in 1191,
by Richard I., for monks of the Premonstratensian
order, the abbots of which were afterwards summoned
to parliament, to sit as peers. It was dedicated to St.
Mary and St. Radegund, and at the dissolution possessed
a revenue of £ 142. 8.