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Britain - Photo and History Pages

SOUTHERN AND SOUTH WEST ENGLAND

 

Link to English Kings and Queens from 802 AD to the present

 

OTHER BRITISH PHOTO AND HISTORY PAGES

MAGNA CARTA

WALES, CENTRAL ENGLAND AND EAST ANGLIA

NORTHERN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND

MAPS SHOWING LOCATIONS OF CATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS IN ENGLAND

 

 

 

Dover Castle and the Cliffs of Dover - the castle's iconic "Norman" keep is actually Plantagenet, having been built in the 1100s by King Henry II.

 

 

GEDDINGTON, WALTHAM AND OTHER ELEANOR CROSSES

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waltham Abbey - the last English Abbey closed by Henry VIII

 

 

 

Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and the 24 medieval cathedrals which emerged after this

 

 

Books about Cathedrals, Abbeys, Priories and Churches in the UK

 

Waverley Abbey First Cistercian Abbey in England

 

The Cistercians in Britain

 

Saint Albans Abbey (/Cathedral)

Rochester Cathedral St Nicholas, Barfreston (Kent)
 

Canterbury Cathedral

 

Limoges Reliquary Châsses for Saint Thomas (Becket)

 

Medieval images of the Becket story

 

 

 

 

Ightham Mote (Kent)

 

 

 

Saint Bartholomew the Greater - the last large Norman space in London

 

Westminster Abbey

Norman lead font with labours of the month and Zodiac signs

St Augustine's Church, Brookland (Romney Marshes)

 

Battle of Hastings at Battle - 1066\

 

Battle, near Hastings - the hill the Normans stormed up to win England in 1066

 

Winchester Cathedral Salisbury Cathedral
 

 

 

 

Romsey Abbey

Christchurch Priory
Chichester Cathedral Beaulieu Abbey (Cistercian)
 

 

Sherborne Abbey Wimborne Minster
 

 

Silbury Hill - the world's largest pre-historic (c2500BC) man made mound they say.

 

 

 

Avebury Stone Circle

 

 

 

St James, Avebury St Mary, Winterbourne Monkton

 

 

Glastonbury Abbey Toller Fratrum
Somerton, Somerset
Somerton Wells Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral Bath Abbey

 

Books about Cathedrals, Abbeys, Priories and Churches in the UK

 

 

 

North Britain & Scotland           East Anglia, Central England & Wales

 

The Cistercians in Britain

 

 

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