📽️ Bardney Abbey

United Kingdom · Europe · 53.22°N, 0.33°W

Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish raid in 869. In 1087, the site was refounded as a priory, by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, and it regained status as an abbey in 1115.

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Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	53.22°N, 0.33°W · view on map

Bardney Abbey is located in United Kingdom, in Europe.

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