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It is thought that the inn was once the brew-house of Dorchester Abbey.
The Black Bear lays claim to being the oldest inn, dating from 1308, while the Bell, though older in that it contains some 13th-century wall paintings, was originally a guest-house for the abbey.
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 house between the trees is Cosener's House, built on the site where the cosener or kitcheners lived – he was the medieval official who ran the Abingdon Abbey's kitchens.
The great ruined chancel of Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale is one of the great architectural treasures of the Yorkshire Dales.
Much of the Abbey would have been designed with arches, openings and decorations similar to those that survive on the Norman Tower.
The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.
Pooley Hall was built by Thomas Cockayne between 1506 and 1509 on the site of a much older house.
The Cathedral was once the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter.
It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers
The original house on this headland, which was built by Philip Mansel, was demolished when Sir Rice Mansel built a comfortable manor house on the site in the 16th century.
Behind stands Church House, once a meeting-place for monks from nearby Muchelney Abbey.
This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.
The Abbey was originally a Cistercian community established in 1145.
Following its dissolution in the 16th century, Lilleshall Abbey has become a ruin - its stones were used for the building of many houses in the area.
This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes
The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn, Wulfric Spot.
The Gatehouse of the present Bindon Abbey, in the grounds of its mediaeval predecessor, was built by Thomas Weld between 1794 and 1798.
The castle stands opposite Netley Abbey; most of the surrounding area has now been filled with housing.
shows some of the house clearances of the last ten years.
