Drax Priory Drax Priory Drax Priory was an Augustinian priory at Drax in North Yorkshire, England, founded between 1130 and 1139 by William Paynel. The Priory has sometimes been called an abbey, though this is judged to be incorrect. Permission was given to crenellate the priory in 1362. The Priory was run down in 1535 with the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the land was leased to Sir Marmaduke Constable to be used as a farm. In 1997, a geophysical survey and aerial imaging was undertaken which revealed wall lines of buried buildings and former ponds. The monks at Drax owned lands
Drax power station led to design improvements in equipment and plant specified by the Board, leading to a few significant areas of the design of "Completion" being altered. The second phase was completed in 1986. Construction of the power station entailed the demolition of a farm known as Wood House. Mitsui Babcock fitted flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment between 1988 and 1995. On privatisation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1990, the station was transferred from the Central Electricity Generating Board to the privatised generating company National Power, which sold it to the AES Corporation in November 1999 for £1.87 billion (US$3 billion).