 The monastery, and much of the city of Ely, were destroyed in the Danish invasions that began in 869 or 870.A new Benedictine monastery was built and endowed on the site by Saint Athelwold, Bishop of Winchester, in 970, in a wave of monastic refoundations which also included Peterborough and Ramsey.In the Domesday Book in 1086, the Bishop of Ely is referenced as a landholder of Foxehola.