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	Lacock Abbey Wiltshire
		The Abbey was founded in 1232 and was used as an Augustinian nunnery until 1539 and the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.
		Sir William died childless in 1553 and the abbey was inherited by his niece Mrs John Talbot.
		The Abbey is also famous for its display of snowdrops which cover the grounds in the spring.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/housewilts_laycockabbey.htm (239 words)

	Lacock Abbey - English Country Houses
		Wiltshire's Lacock Abbey is known as the birthplace of photography.
		Lacock began life as an Augustinian nunnery, and many of the underpinnings of the house show its monastic origins.
		Lacock is worth visiting as much for the village that surrounds it as for the house.
	www.britainexpress.com /articles/Historic_Houses/Lacock_Abbey.htm (524 words)

	Lacock Wiltshire - In Words and Pictures
		Lacock Abbey was founded in 1229 by Ela Countess of Salisbury.
		There was a mill in Lacock and several of the houses had looms on their upper floors, all in all a prosperous little place.
		The abbey too is open to the public while the rest of the village is a pleasure to walk around.
	www.yourguide.org.uk /lacock (589 words)

	Wiltshire County - Council Community & Parish Information - Get Community Information
		After the dissolution the abbey buildings were stripped of most of their lead (it was sold for £193 and 12 shillings) and handed over to William Sharington, who completed the purchase of the abbey lands on 26th July 1540.
		The abbey passed to the Talbot family by marriage but the most substantial change came in 1618 when the royal forest was sold, allowing private development to the east of the river.
		In the 20th century, after the Lacock branch closed, the hall was bought by the National Trust, leased to the parish council and renovated and re-opened as the village hall in 1968.
	www.wiltshire.gov.uk /community/getcom_print.php?id=132 (3872 words)

	Apollo: Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden: W.H. Fox Talbot's early experiments with photography at Lacock Abbey were in part ...
		Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions.
		After the Abbey was suppressed in 1539, it was bought by Sir William Sharington (1495?-1553), who created a formal garden of large courts around the south and east sides of the house which would have been best appreciated from the banqueting room at the top of his new octagonal tower.
		William Henry Fox Talbot, the grandson of the Reverend Davenport, was born at Lacock in 1800.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_506_159/ai_n6152636 (1418 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Lacock, Wiltshire
		Lacock, on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, was once a centre of the medieval wool trade.
		Lacock Abbey, in the village, was founded in 1232, by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, This unusual lady-she was the first and only female sheriff of Wiltshire-built the Abbey as a tribute to her husband and became its first Abbess.
		At the dissolution of the monasteries, the Abbey was turned into a country house and its church was destroyed.
	www.britannia.com /travel/barbaraballard/lacock.html (445 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel Outdoors: England: Lacock offers a rich past and a Harry Potter present
		Lacock Abbey, which includes this graceful cloister, is one of the best preserved medieval abbeys in Britain.
		For Lacock villagers, who rent their homes from the National Trust, it may feel like living on a "Masterpiece Theatre" set, although there is a small school, a bakery and — for the thirsty — four pubs.
		Lacock is one of the most picturesque stops on the Harry Potter trail in Britain.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/traveloutdoors/2001927158_lacock16.html (1251 words)

	Lacock, Wiltshire - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock is an 18th century village preserved in stone, half timbered and thatched buildings.
		Its abbey was the last religous building to be suppressed at the dissolution in 1539 and was latter converted to a private dwelling.
		The village is popular with film makers and was used by the BBC in the filming of Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice.
	www.freefoto.com /browse.jsp?id=38-05-3 (59 words)

	Lacock Abbey and Fox Talbot Museum: Waterscape.com
		The abbey, a popular first on the tourist agenda, was founded in 1232 by the Countess of Salisbury as an unusual tribute to her husband.
		Thankfully, he considered the careful preservation of original features such as the cloisters, sacristy and monastic chambers to be as important as the construction of his country house ‘extras’, such as a handsome stable yard, a clockhouse brewery and a bakehouse.
		Lacock village is a charming testament to its’ 13th century roots with irregular lime-washed, timbered and honey-toned stone cottages exuding an unruffled air.
	www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Lacock_Abbey_and_Fox_Talbot_Museum (328 words)

	Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire: Attraction near Shaw 3m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock Abbey was founded in 1232 and was a nunnery for Augustinian canonesses until 1539 when Henry VIII suppressed the nunnery and sold the Abbey to William Sharington.
		Lacock Village and Lacock Abbey were given to the National Trust in 1944 by the granddaughter of Fox Talbot, Matilda Talbot.
		These hotels are located in the areas around Lacock Abbey of Badminton, Bath, Beckington, Bradford-on-Avon, Castle Combe, Corsham, Devizes, Frome, Malmesbury, Melksham, Swindon, Tetbury, with the cheapest hotel near Lacock Abbey being the Kensington Lodge Hotel (15.8m in Frome) costing from about £30 per night.
	www.uk-tourist-attractions.co.uk /Attractions/History/Abbeys/Lacock_Abbey.cfm (446 words)

	Lacock Abbey
		As they reached the coast an old abbey was observed not far from it, and the earl boldly asked shelter there, from the foes into whose very teeth the tempest had driven him.
		The king could not, however, grant it, in accordance with the principles of the feudal law, till his mother's death; and the Lady Ela held her great power for so long that, surviving her son and grandson, the title at her death passed from the family.
		Olivia, a daughter and a co-heir of Sir Henry Sherington, of Lacock, fell in love with John Talbot, a younger brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury; but her father refused his consent to the match.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/lacock_abbey.html (1649 words)

	Lacock Village Wiltshire
		There was a settlement here before Saxon times but Lacock first became important in the Middle Ages when a planned village was established for the estate workers of the abbey in the 13th century.
		Standing slightly apart from the village is the battlemented church of St Cyriac rebuilt in the 15th century at the height of Lacock's prosperity.
		The abbey and the greater part of the village subsequently passed into the ownership of the Talbot family.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/housewilts_laycockvillage.htm (603 words)

	A few pictures from Lacock Abbey - Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock Abbey (near Chippenham/ Wiltshire) was founded in 1232.
		It shows the Oriel Window of the Abbey (in the middle between the bay windows of the above left picture) and is on display in the museum.
		Lacock Abbey is managed by the National Trust, so don't forget your membership card if you are a member.
	www.armin-grewe.com /holiday/wiltshire/lacock.htm (154 words)

	Apollo: Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden: W.H. Fox Talbot's early experiments with photography at Lacock Abbey were in part ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Apollo: Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden: W.H. Fox Talbot's early experiments with photography at Lacock Abbey were in part prompted by his passion for botany, as Katie Fretwell explains.(Biography)@ HighBeam Research
		Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden: W.H. Fox Talbot's early experiments with photography at Lacock Abbey were in part prompted by his passion for botany, as Katie Fretwell explains.(Biography)
		At his home at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, he developed and stocked the Botanic Garden specifically in order to pursue his own studies.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:115635211&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (220 words)

	Lacock Abbey in Lacock and Bowden Hill, Wiltshire, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock Abbey was founded by Ela, Countess of Salisbury in 1232 in memory of her husband, William Longespee, illegitimate son of Henry II, and one of the most powerful barons of the time.
		On one of her husbands long absences abroad, when everyone assumed that he was lost and would never return, the faithful Ela refused to marry any of the many suitors after her money, saying that she had seen a vision her husband's return.
		They Abbey flourished throughout the Middle Ages as a place for education for girls and as a shelter for those in need and a centre of relief when there was sickness or distress in the village, but during the Reformation the Abbey was suppressed in 1539.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /thisislacock/abbey.htm (488 words)

	CorshamNet: William Fox Talbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock Abbey is as photogenic today as in the time of William Fox Talbot (1800-77) who invented the negative-positive photographic process here.
		There is an excellent exhibition of Fox Talbot's work in the Museum of Photography to be found at the entry to Lacock Abbey.
		Both the Exhibition and the Abbey are administered by The National Trust.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/hugh.c/foxtalb.htm (343 words)

	National Trust \| Lacock Abbey \| Photo gallery
		The exterior of the cloisters seen from the Cloister Court, Lacock Abbey.
		Brilliant lavender surrounding the entrance to the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey.
		The table is upheld on the shoulders of four satyrs and decorated with the scorpion crest of the Sharingtons.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lacockabbeyvillage/w-lacockabbeyvillage-photogallery.htm (261 words)

	CorshamNet: Lacock
		In the mid eighteenth century, Lacock Abbey was in the forefront of the Gothic Revival, when the lofty Great Hall was rebuilt in Gothick style by John Ivory Talbot, Fox Talbot's great-grandfather.
		As it now stands, Lacock Abbey is a mixture of styles - medieval cloisters, Tudor stable court (shown in a number of Fox Talbot's early photographs), and the Gothick Hall.
		Lacock Abbey is also the goal of photographers from all over the world, since it was here, in 1835, that the most famous member of the family, William Henry Fox Talbot made what is generally acknowledged as the world's first photographic negative.
	www.corshamtown.co.uk /lacock.htm (796 words)

	Lets Go There - A guide to Lacock, Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock is almost entirely owned by the National Trust, preserved as a medieval village.
		Thirteenth century Lacock Abbey, with impressive cloisters and now abandoned rooms, is largely intact and well worth an hour of anyone's time as are the gardens.
		His negative of the oriel window of Lacock Abbey is the oldest in existence and the museum does a good job in explaining the wonders of photography to young and old.
	www.letsgothere.co.uk /lgtnet/locations/3-152-5.aspx (358 words)

	Fox Talbot Museum of Photography - Lacock and Bowden Hill, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fox Talbot Museum of Photography - Lacock and Bowden Hill, UK In the 19th century William Henry Fox Talbot remodelled the south elevation of Lacock Abbey and in 1835 invented photography here.
		National Trust museum, at the Abbey gates, commemorates his achievements in photography and displays many examples of his work including his original calotypes.
		Other displays of photography include the Abbey and Lacock village ranging over almost two centuries, a wide variety of cameras on display and photographic exhibitions.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /thisislacock/talbot.htm (152 words)

	Fox Talbot Museum of Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock Abbey was founded in the year 1232 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury.
		The church was destroyed and the octagonal tower, stable courtyard and brewery were added.
		Miss Matilda Talbot donated Lacock Abbey, together with most of the Village, Manor Farm, and Bewley Common to the National Trust between 1944 and 1946.
	r-cube.co.uk /fox-talbot/lacockabbey.html (125 words)

	Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village, an Attraction in Lacock, Wiltshire. Search for Wiltshire Attractions.
		Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village, an Attraction in Lacock, Wiltshire.
		The Museum of Photography commemorates the achievements of a former resident of the Abbey, William Fox Talbot (1800 - 77), inventor of the modern photographic negative and whose descendants gave the Abbey and village to the Trust in 1944.
		Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village is in Lacock, Wiltshire
	www.information-britain.co.uk /showPlace.cfm?Place_ID=2187 (374 words)

	Talbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Davenport Talbot owned Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire which had been in the possession of the Talbot family since the 1500s but this only happened because two husbands took their wife's name of Talbot to keep the Talbot family name from dying out.
		Her skilful management of the Lacock Abbey estate would mean that Henry would eventually face no financial problems.
		He gave the name "negative" to the inverted image that Talbot was producing on his paper covered with suitably chosen chemicals, and "fixing" to the process that Talbot perfected of treating the paper with further chemicals to prevent further action by light.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Talbot.html (1982 words)

	Lacock Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lacock Abbey, the Fox Talbot Museum and Lacock Village
		The Museum of Photography commemorates the achievements of a former resident of the Abbey, William Fox Talbot (1800–77), inventor of the modern photographic negative and whose descendants gave the abbey and village to the National Trust in 1944.
		The village, which dates from the 13th Century and has many limewashed half-timbered and stone houses, was used as a location in the TV and film productions of Pride and Prejudice, Moll Flanders and Emma.
	www.swindon.gov.uk /textV2/tourism-lacock (232 words)

	London Taxi Tour of the Harry Potter film locations. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At Lacock Abbey some of the main film shots for 'Philosophers Stone' and 'Chamber of Secrets' were filmed here and you can walk in the footsteps of Harry Potter.
		This grassed courtyard in the centre of Lacock Abbey is featured many times in 'Philosophers Stone' and 'Chamber of Secrets'.
		Walk the cloisters of Lacock Abbey and see some of the corridors which Harry Potter walked along in 'Philosophers Stone' and 'Chamber of Secrets'.
	www.londontaxitour.com /Harry-Potter-tours-film-location-lacock-abbey.htm (277 words)

	The Old Rectory, Lacock, Wiltshire - Around and About
		is the 13th-Century Lacock Abbey, a gem of the National Trust, where William Fox Talbot lived.
		Also to be seen are the 'white horses' on the downs while the nearby village of Avebury is well worth a visit.
		being close to the neighbouring villages of Castle Combe and Biddestone, Lacock is in the ancient county of Wiltshire, where Avebury and Stonehenge are of great significance.
	www.oldrectorylacock.co.uk /location.htm (330 words)

	The Sign of the Angel - Old English Hotel and Restaurant in the National Trust village of Lacock
		The village of Lacock ("lay-cock") lies at the southern edge of the Cotswolds, in the South West of England.
		Originally a centre of the medieval wool trade and part of the estate of Lacock Abbey, the whole village is now owned by the National Trust.
		the village, famous for its Abbey and the Fox-Talbot Museum of Photography is the "Sign of the Angel", a 15th Century wool merchants house.
	www.lacock.co.uk (218 words)

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