English Heritage
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Twelve monks from France, a river that kept flooding and a king who stayed for Holy Week: the story of Britain’s first Cistercian abbey, now a free ruin beside the River Wey near Farnham.
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A rich man’s 1430s riverside showpiece, later home to a close ally of Richard III, then pulled down for building stone. Here is what survives at Minster Lovell Hall, and the legend that has never left it.
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A 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb on the Cotswold escarpment above Winchcombe, with a grand front entrance that was never a way in.
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A Cistercian abbey founded after a storm at sea and made famous by a relic that drew pilgrims from far and wide, until Henry VIII’s reformers declared it a fake.
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Massive earthwork banks on the edge of Cirencester mark the arena of Roman Corinium, which seated around 8,000 before it became a fortress.