Vale Royal Abbey
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Vale Royal Abbey
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 26 Dec 2011
The "abbey" has not been a religious site since the Reformation, but this imposing building roughly on the site of the mediaeval foundation has kept the name. It is now a golf club and conference venue, but was originally a private house - see Image for more history - and from the 1940s was for a time the headquarters of Cheshire Constabulary*. * reference: "Along the Viking Border", LMS Route Book No. 2, 1947. I have not found corroboration of this elsewhere.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.224728
Longitude
-2.542775