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Buckland Abbey

Yelverton, United Kingdom PL20 6EY

Featured Review : These popular workshops are rented from the NT by local tradesmen and occupy what used to be the oxsheds to the right of the Great Barn. The old sheds are divided into several units where visitors may buy lace, pottery, ...See Full Review

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Buckland Abbey Reviews

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The Oxshed Workshops

  • 4 out of 5 stars by GB from Devizes from Devizes, United Kingdom
  • September 15, 2006
The Oxshed Workshops
Quote: These popular workshops are rented from the NT by local tradesmen and occupy what used to be the oxsheds to the right of the Great Barn. The old sheds are divided into several units where visitors may buy lace, pottery, sculpture, metal-worked... Read the full Buckland Abbey review

From journal Buckland Abbey - Home of Sir Francis Drake

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The Gardens and The Flowery Mead

  • 3 out of 5 stars by GB from Devizes from Devizes, United Kingdom
  • September 15, 2006
The Gardens and The Flowery Mead
Quote: This an almost exclusively 20th century addition to the grounds although the garden covers much of the medieval foundations of the abbey that were demolished following the Dissolution. The earliest records show a garden here in 1734, complete with a... Read the full Buckland Abbey review

From journal Buckland Abbey - Home of Sir Francis Drake

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The Great Barn

  • 4 out of 5 stars by GB from Devizes from Devizes, United Kingdom
  • September 15, 2006
The Great Barn
Quote: This majestic building has always been the largest structure at Buckland which is indicative of the huge agricultural efforts practised by the Cistercian monks. The massively buttressed walls are a metre thick and 48 metres long by 10 metres wide... Read the full Buckland Abbey review

From journal Buckland Abbey - Home of Sir Francis Drake

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The House

  • 5 out of 5 stars by GB from Devizes from Devizes, United Kingdom
  • September 15, 2006
The House
Quote: Compared to other great abbeys of the era such as Tintern and Rievaulx, Buckland is relatively modest. After the Dissolution however, the monastic areas of the abbey were so extensively removed that today, it is difficult to envisage where the major... Read the full Buckland Abbey review

From journal Buckland Abbey - Home of Sir Francis Drake

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Buckland Abbey - A Potted History

  • 4 out of 5 stars by GB from Devizes from Devizes, United Kingdom
  • September 15, 2006
Buckland Abbey - A Potted History
Quote: Buckland was founded in 1278 as the last of the great Cistercian abbeys in England and Wales. The spot was chosen due to its proximity to a fresh water supply from the River Tavy, who’s valley the abbey sits in.. Its founder was Amicia, Countess of... Read the full Buckland Abbey review

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Buckland Abbey

  • 5 out of 5 stars by Bear in Britain from Windsor, United Kingdom
  • October 28, 2002
Buckland Abbey
Quote: Many of England’s great houses spring from the dissolution of the monasteries, when Henry VIII and his advisers made a fortune by seizing the Catholic Church’s property and selling it to ambitious noblemen. Oh, yes, he got a divorce along the way... Read the full Buckland Abbey review

From journal Dartmoor: England's romantic wilderness