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The Abbey was founded in a house given to Father Anselm Bolton by Lady Anne Fairfax, daughter of Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley. This house was taken over by Dr. Brewer, President of the Congregation, 30 July 1802. The community, since leaving Dieulouard in Lorraine, where its members had joined with Spanish and Cassinese Benedictines to form the monastery of St Laurence, had been successively at Acton Burnell, Tranmere, Scholes, Vernon Hall, and Parbold Hall, under its s

Ampleforth College

The monastery founded a school at Ampleforth in 1802. It is now the co-educational independent boarding school Ampleforth College, with about 600 students. Since 2017 the college has separated from the Abbey by splitting the site and each having their own independent governance.

Parishes

In addition to the work at Ampleforth, some of the monks are assigned as parish priests to parishes across four dioceses.

St. Benet's Hall

Ampleforth has a Permanent Private Hall at St Benet's Hall, Oxford, which was founded in 1897 for the purpose of letting monks study for secular degrees. It now accepts lay undergraduates and graduates, as well as monastic members.

In November 2017, the national Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse undertook as part of its larger mandate an investigation into the prevalence of paedophilia in the English Benedictine Congregation and its failures in protecting young people over many decades. The primary focus of the Benedictine investigation centered on the abbeys of Downside, Ealing, and Ampleforth. The final report outlined a series of failures at Ampleforth, but also noted the ongoing efforts of both the Abbey and

Ampleforth is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the Archbishop of York, but that the land was possibly waste. The name ‘Ampleforth’ derives from a combination of the Old English words ampre and ford meaning ‘ ford where sorrel grew.’ Until immediately after the Second World War Ampleforth mainly consisted of houses built along the main road which serves as the principal thoroughfare. Here there are several buildings dating back to the 19th century including the village ...

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south-east to Coulton with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 2,153.