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	Buckfast Tonic Wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buckfast Tonic Wine, commonly known as simply Buckfast or Buckie (in Scotland and Ireland), is a tonic wine produced by Buckfast Abbey in Devon, south west England.
		However, Buckfast has become an 'icon' within the 'Ned' youth culture, and groups of Neds can frequently be seen drinking it out of the bottle at all times of day in parks and other public places.
		The monks of Buckfast Abbey and their distribution partners strenuously deny that their product is particularly harmful, saying that it is responsibly and legally enjoyed by the great majority of purchasers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine (593 words)

	Station Information - Buckfast Abbey
		Buckfast Abbey in Buckfastleigh, Devon is one of a small number of active monasteries in Britain today.
		Between 1536, when it was dissolved, and 1882, the abbey lay in ruins.
		Brother Adam, born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, was in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping, but the bees were being decimated by "Isle of Wight" disease, later called "acarine" disease, after the acarine parasitic mite that invaded the bees' tracheal tubes and shortened their lives, killing off whole colonies.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/buckfast_abbey.html (201 words)

	Abbeys
		It seems that the abbey did not generate much wealth and by the end of the twelfth century it was probably in decline.
		By the later Middle Ages Buckfast Abbey had risen to be one of the wealthiest Cistercian abbeys in the south of England, and ran its own guest hall, almshouse and school.
		The abbey was surrendered in 1539 and a year later the manor of Buckfast and the site of the abbey were sold to Sir Thomas Dennys.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /abbeys/buckfast.php (713 words)

	Buckfast Abbey and Buckfastleigh - Devon Online
		The station in Buckfastleigh is adjacent to the Buckfast Butterfly Farm and the Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary.
		Not all of the Abbey was completely rebuilt as the restored medieval north and south gates survived the centuries of abandonment and decay.
		Buckfast Abbey's most famous product is the Buckfast Tonic Wine, made from a secret formula and sold throughout the Country.
	www.devon-online.com /towns/buckfastleigh/Welcome.html (398 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Buckfast Abbey
		The reputation, however, of the monks for learning was sustained until the dissolution, and they seem to have been generally beloved in the district for their piety, kindliness, and benevolence.
		The last legitimately elected Abbot of Buckfast was John Rede, who died about 1535, the year of the Visitation ordered by Henry VIII, which resulted in the intrusion of Gabriel Donne into the vacant chair.
		Mass was again said and the Divine Office chanted at Buckfast on 29 October, 1882, and eight months later the Abbey was legally conveyed to the monks.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03027a.htm (552 words)

	The History of Buckfast Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The history of Buckfast Abbey is extraordinary, since it is the only English medieval monastery to have been restored and used again for its original purpose.
		In 1315, Buckfast was listed along with Forde, Newenham and Torre Abbey as an exporter of wool to Florence, although it is likely that, in line with most Abbeys in the country, Buckfast was sending wool to Italy by the end of the previous century.
		At Buckfast in the 12th century, there may have been as many as 60 choir monks, and perhaps twice as many lay-brothers; between 1500 and 1539, only 22 monks were ordained, ten of whom remained at the Dissolution and signed the deed of surrender.
	www.buckfast.com /HISTORY.HTM (3482 words)

	Buckfast Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Buckfast Abbey is the home of a Roman Catholic Community of Benedictine monks in Devon, England.
		The Abbey Church was rebuilt by the monks themselves.
		Although the monks of Buckfast do spend a lot of time in prayer and contemplation, they are also actively involved in parish work, education, craftwork, shop work, as well as welcoming almost half a million visitors each year from all over the world.
	www.dawlish.com /Webs?PageID=940 (246 words)

	English Benedictine Congregation - Buckfast Abbey
		The foundation was either re-colonized or reinforced by monks from the Norman abbey of Savigny in 1136.
		Monastic life at Buckfast was revived in 1882 when Benedictine monks of La Pierre-qui-Vire, exiled from France, made it their home.
		Buckfast was raised to the dignity of an Abbey in 1902, and was affiliated to the English Congregation in 1960.
	www.benedictines.org.uk /abbeys/buckfast.htm (354 words)

	BBC - Devon Great Outdoors - Gardens at Buckfast Abbey
		The Abbey, on the south eastern edge of Dartmoor, was established as a Benedictine monastery in 1018.
		Visiting Buckfast Abbey was just one of those things you did, when you were growing up in Devon in the early 1970s.
		Car parking at Buckfast Abbey is free, as is admission to the gardens and the Abbey itself.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/outdoors/gardens/2004/buckfast_abbey.shtml (745 words)

	Buckfast Denmark (English) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Buckfast strain combines a number of desired characteristics, such as hardiness, low swarming, gentleness, ease of handling, resistance to disease and honey gathering ability, in a single bee.
		Moreover, Buckfast Denmark is authorised as an official supplier of Buckfast queens, to maintain the good name of both Br Adam and the celebrated strain that he created.
		The Buckfast bee is a hybrid that requires the periodic introduction of new blood to prevent inbreeding and to accentuate certain genetic attributes, such as mite tolerance.
	www.buckfast.dk /uk.htm (1252 words)

	buckfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Buckfast is a tiny village on the edge of Dartmoor in South Devon.
		In 1018 Buckfast Abbey was founded, this date is only a probable date and by no means concrete.
		In 1907 a small team of monks begin to rebuild the abbey church, and in 1938 the church is complete.
	www.enigma1.freeserve.co.uk /buckfast.htm (123 words)

	No sub category (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Abbey of the Genesee is a Community of Cistercian, Trappist monks in Piffard, NY.
		Founded in 1876, the mission of Belmont Abbey College is to educate primarily undergraduate students from diverse religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds in the liberal arts tradition as guided by the catholic intellectual heritage and inspired by the 1500-year-old Benedictine monastic tradition.
		Saint Benedict Abbey, located in the Still River section of Harvard, Massachusetts, is a Benedictine monastic community of priests and brothers dedicated to living an authentic and orthodox expression of their Catholic Faith and they invite others to join them.
	www.lisaslighthouse.org /abbeys-no-sub-category.htm (641 words)

	Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey
		The Buckfast Abbey hive is similar to the Modified Dadant, but accommodates twelve frames instead of eleven.
		In this country, and especially in the vicinity of Buckfast (probably due to its particular climate), acarine disease is prevalent.
		he Buckfast bee is a cross between the native British and the Italian bee; this cross was produced thirty-five years ago, shortly before the native bee was exterminated by acarine disease.
	www.fundp.ac.be /~jvandyck/homage/artcl/FAmethBW50en.html (2235 words)

	Buckfast Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mixed Gothic and Romanesque nave of Buckfast Abbey
		The panel is about 8 metres (26 feet) across and was designed by the monks who built the abbey
		The strength of "Buckfast", and its misuse, have proved to be a controversial issue for the abbey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buckfast_Abbey (288 words)

	BBC - Devon Faith - Buckfast Abbey, a haven for peace and quiet
		Buckfast Abbey has had its ups and downs in a history dating back almost a thousand years.
		However, the Abbey was rebuilt based on the Cistercian style of the 12th century.
		And, right beside the Abbey itself is the physic garden, full of more than 200 plants which would have been grown in a monastic herb garden.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/faith/2004/buckfast_abbey.shtml (531 words)

	Seitentitel
		Following his mother's express wish, as early as March 1910 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Buckfast (in South-West England), whose inmates at the time were almost exclusively German.
		The young monk was just not strong enough for work on the reconstruction of the abbey, which was in process at the time.
		For this reason he was sent in 1915 to the Abbey's apiary, the management of which he took over in the autumn of 1919.
	www.homepages.lu /apisjungels/page102.html (392 words)

	Buckfast Abbey in Devon Britain
		The present abbey is much newer however, having been built at the start of the twentieth century on the site of the original abbey's ruins.
		Although relatively new, the abbey was lovingly built by a group of only four monks who finished the work in 1938.
		The grounds of the abbey are equally impressive, containing immaculate lawns, fine old stone buildings, a wonderful restaurant and a large shop which stocks, beside the usual gifts and souveniers, many honey and tonic wines produced by the monks.
	www.netconstructors.co.uk /magicalplaces/places/devon/buckabb.htm (189 words)

	» Special Types of Wine« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Buckfast Tonic Wine commonly known as simply Buckfast or Buckie (in Scotland) is a tonic wine produced by Buckfast Abbey in South Western England.
		The wine was first produced in 1890s by the monks at Buckfast Abbey using a recipe brought over from France.
		Its high strength (15% alcohol by volume) combined with its low price and sweetness mean that many find Buckfast to be the ideal means by which to become drunk as quickly and cheaply as possible.
	www.wineandwhiskey.info /winespltype.html (378 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Buckfast-ban proposal is Babycham politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ms Jamieson, who is rapidly becoming the new Helen Liddell, has called for a ban on Buckfast, which she believes is a source of anti-social behaviour in the west of Scotland.
		Meanwhile, the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey in Devon continue to push their noxious concoction, cocooned from the effect it is having in some of Scotland’s poorest communities.
		Buckfast is the bampot tipple of choice and the easy availability of a drug is often associated with its abuse.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=171912005 (1474 words)

	Brother Adam and his Buckfast Bee
		As a 12-year-old boy he arrived in 1910 at Buckfast Abbey, the Benedictine monastery in Devon, England for the purpose to devoting himself to life as a monk.
		The second one is formed from his experimental crosses between other races and the Buckfast bee, and their developing generations.
		But every queen, worker and drone at Buckfast Abbey has a known descent (and for his original strains a recorded pedigree going back over a period of more than fifty years), both on the maternal and paternal side.
	www.fundp.ac.be /~jvandyck/homage/artcl/osterl83en.html (2176 words)

	Buckfast News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Buckfast have injected millions of pounds into a number of charity organisations across the UK for a number of years but have always made donations anonymously.
		But Buckfast's Scottish distributors J Chandler and Co said they had just invested in a state-of-the-art bottling plant and would ``hardly be likely'' to move production to another company.
		BUCKFAST have made a veiled threat to pull out of Scotland after claims they are being made scapegoats for under- age drunken yobs.
	www.bawbag.com /buckfast-news.php (1788 words)

	Buckfast Abbey and Otters
		Neverthless Buckfast today appears very much as it would have done in medieval times, for when the monks returned to the site in 1882 they discovered the medieval foundations and rebuilt the whole abbey in the style which the Cistercians would have been used.
		The Buckfast queens are bred in isolation in the centre of Dartmoor, but the 320 honey hives are distributed around the Abbey grounds and local farms and orchards until late summer, when they are all taken to Dartmoor for the heather crop - which makes the finest honey.
		The Buckfast monks brought their own recipe from france when they restored monastic life at the Abbey in 1882.
	www.geocities.com /francesfo/buck.html (970 words)

	BeeSource.com \| POV \| Osterlund \| Buckfast Breeding Program
		Buckfast breeding program is breeding principles developed at Buckfast Abbey by the Benedictinian monk Brother Adam.
		Buckfast is a small place in southwestern England where there have been a monastry in very old times which was restored in the 19th century.
		You also follow the Buckfast principles when you try out new strains in combinations with the main Buckfast strain, like is done in for example Luxemburg, Denmark and Sweden as well as of course at Buckfast Abbey.
	www.beesource.com /pov/osterlund/proceedings.htm (1250 words)

	Buckfast Tonic Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Made by the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England.
		The recipe for the wine was sent to Buckfast in 1897 by the nephew of one of the original French monks.
		Today, the monks make Buckfast Tonic Wine along the same lines and according to the same basic recipe as was used at the end of the last century.
	www.bawbag.com /buckfast.php (303 words)

	The Monk and the Honeybee
		Scientifically the resistance of the Buckfast bees to the trachea mite was often questioned, or put down to a rapid mutation in the bee population.
		What is more, although the Buckfast brood was already imported in 1968 and was then kept and bred until 1986 in the absence of trachea mites, it kept its full resistance against the inside mite.
		The extensive costs were mostly borne by Buckfast Abbey and the travel program envisaged was agreed on with the with the English Ministry of Agriculture.
	www.rweaver.com /adam.html (8070 words)

	Buckfast Abbey's Tonic Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The recipe for the Tonic wine is attributed to the original French monks who settled at the Abbey in the 1880's.
		In 1927 a London wine merchant was visiting the Abbey, and in conversation with the Abbot, Anscar Vonnier, it was decided that the monks would continue to make the Tonic wine with the distribution and sale to be carried out by a separate marketing company.
		In modern times it continues to be made by the monks of Buckfast Abbey along the same lines and according to the same basic recipe as used in the very early days.
	www.buckfast.org.uk /TONIC.HTM (278 words)

	Matt - Devon gallery - Buckfast
		The present abbey was built by the monks, and essentially finished in 1937 after 32 years work.
		A lavender garden within the grounds of the Abbey, with many strains of lavender on display.
		There is a chapel on the end of the Abbey which has this window on its east.
	www.matfrygbr.co.uk /buckfast.html (211 words)

	Buckfast Abbey Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The history of Buckfast Abbey is extraordinary, since it is the only English medieval monastery to have been restored after the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII, and used again for its original purpose.
		Set in the beautiful valley of the river Dart in Devon, England, Buckfast is home to a community of Benedictine monks, who are striving to dedicate their lives to the service of God by living a life in common under the guidance of the Rule of St. Benedict.
		In addition, Buckfast, in keeping with Benedictine tradition, is also involved in education.
	www.buckfast.org.uk (830 words)

	OSB. What Was New! Third Quarter (August and July 1998)
		He saw the visits to the Abbey by thousands of tourists every year as an opportunity to show the public that the monastic life is not a quaint throwback to medieval times, but a vibrant, forward-looking concept, relevant to life in the late 20th century.
		Saint Mary's is the fourth oldest abbey of the American-Cassinese Congregation.
		On 24 June 1998 The Holy Father appointed Dom Tarcisio Giovanni Nazzaro OSB to be the ordinary abbot of the territorial abbey of Montevergine, Italy.
	www.osb.org /new/1995-2000/9803anew.html (2500 words)

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