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http://www.lincsheritage.org/community_heritage/guides_information/witham_abbeys/
An illustrated to the history and remains of Bardney, Barlings and Tupholme Abbeys from The Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire, including ground plans and artist's reconstructions.
http://www.boltonabbey.com/
The ruins of a 12th-century Augustinian priory, of which only the church nave survives intact, on the estate of the Duke of Devonshire. Small photographs.
http://www.buckfast.org.uk/
The official site includes an illustrated history of the medieval monastery refounded in 1882. Sensitive map of the site leads to descriptions of the buildings.
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/priory/
Notes towards a dissertation by Gretta Logue of Queen's University, Belfast. Location plan.
http://www.farnboroughabbey.org/
The official site provides a history and interactive Virtual Reality tour of this monastery built by the Empress Eugenie to house the tomb of Napoleon III (d.1873).
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fountains-abbey/
Britain's largest monastic ruin and most complete Cistercian abbey is a World Heritage site. Photographs, outline history and visitor information from the National Trust.
http://www.glastonburyabbey.com/
Official web-site, stronger on myth and legend than proven historical fact.
http://myweb.lmu.edu/sshepherd/med.htm
Among the subjects of S.H. Shepherd's professional lens are the ruined Cistercian Abbey of Hailes, Gloucestershire and Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. Includes brief histories.
http://www.britannia.com/church/saxchurch/oswdglos.html
Reconstruction, photograph and history by David Nash Ford from Britannia Internet Magazine.
http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/
Project at Sheffield University analysing the life, history and architecture of Cistercian monks in Yorkshire. Includes 3D virtual reality re-creations of the abbey buildings, and a gazetteer of Cistercian abbeys in the British Isles.
http://www.aboutlancs.com/whalley.htm
A brief history of this Lancashire abbey by its Warden, Canon Geoffrey Williams. The ruins are open to the public.
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