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    Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is housed in the gatehouse of the ruined 12th-century Kirkstall Abbey, and is a Grade...
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    side of the main road, the Grade II* listed former abbey gatehouse now forms the Abbey House Museum. The Leeds Shakespeare Festival, performed by the British...
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    Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation...
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    Theresa Talbot gave the house and the surrounding village of Lacock to the National Trust. The abbey houses the Fox Talbot Museum, devoted to the pioneering...
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  • Sherlock Holmes Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness, a 1914 house by Edwin Lutyens Abbey House, Cambridge, a 17th-century house Abbey House, Cirencester, Gloucestershire...
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    Red House Museum was a historic house museum, built in 1660 and renovated in the Georgian era. It closed to the public at the end of 2016 but remains as...
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    Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the...
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    221B Baker Street (category Fictional houses)
    to 221B Baker Street. Since the closure of Abbey House in 2005, ownership of the address by the Holmes Museum has not been challenged, despite its location...
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    monks founded Kirkstall Abbey, a daughter house of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The Abbey House Museum opposite the abbey tells the story of the...
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    Cross. A considerable portion of the abbey is now in ruins. A structure dating from 1590 is maintained as a museum open to the public. Alexander II and...
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    Discovery Centre, Thwaite Mills, Lotherton Hall, Temple Newsam, Abbey House Museum and Kirkstall Abbey. Armley Mills lie on the south bank and an island in the...
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    Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...
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    An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings...
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    Leeds (section Museums)
    diverse programme of special exhibitions. Abbey House Museum is housed in the former gatehouse of Kirkstall Abbey, and includes walk-through Victorian streets...
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    Wetherby Abbey House Museum, Leeds Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Leeds Bagshaw Museum, Batley Bankfield Museum, Halifax Bradford Industrial Museum, Eccleshill/Fagley...
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  • Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. It first aired...
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    (uniquely in Britain) populated by 30 monks sent from the abbey of Cîteaux in France, the mother house of the Cistercian order. The Medieval Latin name of the...
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    The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in York, England and a scheduled monument. Once one of the most prosperous abbeys in Northern England...
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    front of Tullie House, Abbey Street (1196978)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 July 2015. "About us". Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery...
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    presented it to Nottingham Corporation in 1931. The Abbey is owned by Nottingham City Council and houses a museum containing Byron memorabilia. It plays host...
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    interpretation of the Reading Abbey Quarter was installed, including a new gallery at Reading Museum, and an extensive activity programme. Abbey Ward of Reading Borough...
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    "Waverley Abbey House", which was built in 1723 in the northern portion of the former abbey precinct. Waverley Abbey House, the ruins of the abbey and the...
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    Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in...
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    Bolton Abbey Estate in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England, takes its name from a 12th-century Augustinian monastery of canons regular, now known as...
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    The Abbey Pumping Station is a museum of science and technology in Leicester, England, on Corporation Road, next to the National Space Centre. With four...
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    February 1884 – 25 June 1969) was a British museum curator. She was the Assistant Curator at the Abbey House Museum for more than two decades. Violet Mary...
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    listed building, one of nine Leeds Museums and Galleries sites and part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership. The estate lends its...
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    The hall is currently open to the public, the West Yorkshire Folk Museum being housed in an adjoining barn and farm buildings. The hall has a variety of...
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    Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery. Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658...
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    20th Series from 14 April to 16 June 2017. Abbey House Museum Wentworth Woodhouse Stables The Slaughter House Todmorden Church Weir Mill Ripon Workhouse...
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