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- The Cistercians in Yorkshire
- 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.
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- Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
- 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.
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- Glastonbury Abbey
- www.glastonburyabbey.com
- Official web-site, stronger on myth and legend than proven historical fact.
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- Farnborough Abbey
- 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).
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- Buckfast Abbey, Devon
- 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.
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