Tintern, Abbey 1890
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More about this scene
It is difficult to imagine from this idyllic scene that Tintern was once heavily industrialised. Records of an iron and wire works here go back to the 16th century, and production continued until around the end the 19th century. At one time there was a considerable number of German and Swedish wire workers employed. The wire was used, among other things, to make brushes for carding in the wool industry. The abbey was founded in 1131 for the Cistercian order by Walter De Clare, and dissolved by Henry VIII in the 28th year of his reign in 1536–37.
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