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The Abbey Gate Restaurant to the right is not 14th-century as it claims, but the adjacent Abbey Gate is.

The property on the right calls itself The Abbey Gate and claims to be a '14th-century restaurant' while offering home-made cakes and pastries.

Abingdon's Market Place is an ancient space, probably established at the gates of Abingdon Abbey by the year 1000, some years after AD954 when the Anglo-Saxon abbey had been re-founded by St Ethelwold

The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey

The Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.

William the Conqueror, having beaten and killed the Anglo-Danish King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066, vowed to found an abbey on the site of the great battle, known as the Battle of Hastings.

Note theThe Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.

This was the main entrance to the secular part of the Abbey of St Edmunds.

The abbey gate replaced a Norman gate destroyed by the townspeople in 1327, who then had to pay for this castle-like defensive structure.

Here we see a busy day in the Market Place with charabancs and cars parked outside the magnificent Abbey Gateway, which was built in 1338.

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates.

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

Near the entrance to Worksop College, on Sparrow Hill (the old road into Worksop), are the lion gates and one of the many lodges and gateways into the vast 3,000 acre grounds of Welbeck Abbey, built

Whitegate is named for an old white gate which would once have marked the entrance to the former Vale Royal Abbey.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

He was born at Upper Bockhampton 2 June 1840 and died at Max Gate Dorchester 11 January 1928.

St Nicholas's Church was built at the abbey gates for lay abbey staff, tenants and workers, and for travellers to pray for safe onward journeys or who were about to cross the River Thames.

Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.

These arches can be seen when approaching Sawley (or 'Sally') Abbey.

We are looking up river towards the lock gates, with the site of the former abbey and its grounds on the right.

The photograph shows Abbey Row; we are looking down towards the Triangle and the parish of Westport.

Beyond is the church schoolroom and the lych gate - from where Monks Path runs to Cleeve Abbey.