Notts - Moorgreen NG16
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Notts - Moorgreen NG16
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 2 Apr 2012
Track leading to Beauvale Abbey Farm with the remains of Beauvale Priory behind it. This track is a left turn off New Road, which in turn is a right-hand turning off the B600 in the village of Moorgreen. The priory was founded in 1343. When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s Prior Webster journeyed to London to protest. He was never seen again. His successor, Prior Thomas Woodcock and his brethren finally surrendered the monastery to the King on July 24, 1540. An annual pilgrimage is made to the site led by the Bishop of Nottingham, otherwise the ruins can be visited almost daily, except on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.03421
Longitude
-1.265231