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Dorstone In The Golden Valley
In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more
A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by
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Set on the banks of the Tennant Canal, the Abbey was founded in 1130 by the Norman baron Richard de Granville.
Set on the banks of the Tennant Canal, the Abbey was founded in 1130 by the Norman baron Richard de Granville.
An unusual view of the Abbey Gateway—in the centre—and the bridge over the Cornmill Stream, a tributary of the River Lea, with people relaxing around the broken walls.
Amesbury dates back to at least 973; it is the nearest town to Stonehenge, and has a population of about 6,000.
The abbey is set at the end of a narrow, winding lane a mile out of Richmond, and sits comfortably in the peaceful valley of the River Swale.
Henry VIII awarded Russell Woburn Abbey as a reward for service, and his descendants became Dukes of Bedford.
Pevsner rightly refers to the house (extreme left) as the finest of its date in the county, designed by William Smith of Warwick in 1697 for Sir Roger Cave.
The parish church and the abbey ruins on the horizon are reached by the 199 steps from the old part of town.
Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey on the site of an earlier Saxon church dedi- cated to St Werburgh.
The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.
The astronomical clock, once thought to have been built by Peter Lightfoot, a monk at Glastonbury Abbey, was constructed in 1392 and has three dials.
Henry VIII awarded Russell Woburn Abbey as a reward for service, and his descendants became Dukes of Bedford.
Today, many know Bisham Abbey as the training ground of the England football team.
The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst.
Parts of the church date from the 1400s, and the three bells are said to have come from the abbey after it was pulled down.
Parts of the church date from the 1400s, and the three bells are said to have come from the Abbey after it was pulled down.
To the east of the village are the earthworks of a moated grange to Garendon Abbey, a Cistercian house founded in 1377.
It was all done in memory of Sir Joseph Banks, who lived in Revesby Abbey, named after the 12th-century abbey, a Cistercian foundation.
Nestling just under the hills surrounding the North York Moors is the old settlement of Ampleforth, built around the early abbey of St Lawrence.
The parish church and the abbey ruins on the horizon are reached by the 199 steps from the old part of town.
Turner and Landseer are just two of the many painters who have been drawn to the sublime scenery around the abbey.
The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.
What remains of Crowland Abbey is only a small part of what was there before the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Paisley Abbey, a Cluniac monastery founded in 1163 and now a charge of the Church of Scotland, has much 14th- and 15th-century architecture and stained-glass windows.
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