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Titchfield Abbey
Titchfield Abbey is a medieval abbey and later country house, located in the village of Titchfield near Fareham in Hampshire, England. ... Henry VIII dissolved the abbey in 1537.
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Talley Abbey
Talley Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Talyllychau) is a former monastery of the Premonstratensians ("White Canons") in the village of Talley in Carmarthenshire, Wales, six miles north of the market town of Llandeilo. ... The abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII and the structure mined by the villagers for stone to build much of the present village and the chapel next to the abbey.
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Egglestone Abbey
Egglestone Abbey is an abandoned Premonstratensian Abbey on the eastern bank of the River Tees, 1½ miles (2.5km) south-east of Barnard Castle in County Durham, England, at grid reference NZ061151. ... The Abbey was dissolved in 1540 by king Henry VIII, the lands were granted to Robert Strelly in 1548, who converted some of the buildings into a great private house that was abandoned in the mid-19th century.
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Windberg Abbey
Windberg Abbey (Kloster Windberg) is a Premonstratensian monastery in Windberg in Lower Bavaria, Germany. ... Beeleigh Abbey had been a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1180 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536.
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List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
These monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII of England in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town of any size had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it, and often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.
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West Langdon Abbey
West Langdon Abbey grid reference TR329468 was a Premonstratensian abbey, situated near Langdon, Kent. ... In 1535, the abbey was reputedly the first religious house to be dissolved by Henry VIII and had, at that time, an annual revenue estimated at £56.
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Titchfield
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Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. ... Henry dissolved them (1536–1540) and transferred of a fifth of the England's landed wealth to new hands.
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Three Mills
The Three Mills are former working mills on the River Lee in the East End of London, one of London’s oldest extant industrial centre. ... By the time Henry VIII dissolved the abbey in the 1530s, the mills were grinding flour for the bakers of Stratford-atte-Bow, who were celebrated for the quality of their bread and who supplied the huge City of London market.