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Pictures of Blanchland Abbey

a Abbey in the town of Blanchland, in the county of Northumberland

About Blanchland Abbey

Blanchland Abbey was founded as a priory in 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II, and became an abbey in the late 13th century.

The abbey was dissolved in 1539, with the gatehouse surviving, and the stone from the abbey being used to help contruct the stone houses of the attractive village.

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