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This fine church at the top end of the Market Place was situated by the south gate of the Abbey.

In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.

In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.

This area of Malmesbury was once called the Sheep Fair; it is in the parish of Westport, which by the late 19th century became a civil parish of westport St Mary Within.

In about 1720 St Olave's was almost entirely rebuilt with stone from St Mary's Abbey.

This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in

At the far end is Abbeygate Street, with the three-storey Barclays Bank of 1881, which incorporated the Post and Sorting Office until 1895, the Midland Bank of 1914, and Whipps the fishmonger.

The medieval town was at its gates, but moved westwards to its present location.

Thomas Berry, a yeoman farmer, built this house on the site of an abbey in 1745.

Carrington renamed Loakes Manor the much more romantic Wycombe Abbey, and set about Gothicising and extending the house.

Beaumont Street is named after the family of Viscount Allendale; here stands the great Abbey Church of St Andrew that makes Hexham important.

Bindon Abbey was the location of an important Cistercian monastery and dates back to 1172.

The Abbey Church of St Editha dates from Norman times, but Polesworth Abbey is said to have been founded by King Egbert in 827.

All the stone used in the building came from the ruins of the abbey, a hundred yards away.

Just visible on the right, peeping through the trees, is Torre Abbey, home of the Cary family for 300 years.

Malmesbury Abbey`s unique south porch, dating from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some

Although fragments of the Norman abbey remain, the present abbey church dates from 1499, and was a prodigiously long time a-building: the nave was still roofless into the 17th century.

The abbey church of St Peter and St Paul is all that remains of an Augustinian abbey built on the site in 1170.

One of the country's largest parish churches, the abbey was founded in the 8th century, and refounded in 1091.

It was owned by the Benedictine monks at nearby Ramsey Abbey, whom the local farmers tended to regard as crooks.

This church may have the oldest foundations of any in Lancashire, dating from Saxon times.

Facing us is Abbey Mill, whose origins date back eight centuries to the time when monks from the Benedictine monastery diverted the River Avon to power the mill to grind the corn that made their daily

This former Cistercian abbey was founded in 1131 by Walter de la Clare.

In the grounds there is a sundial dating from the 1700s.The biggest problem for visitors to Whalley today is finding a space to park.Whalley Abbey and its grounds have passed through many hands since