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	Newstead Abbey Nottinghamshire
		Newstead Abbey, founded in the 12th century, was purchased after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by the poet's ancestor, Sir John Byron of Colwick. Sir John's house was constructed around the the old cloister garth and incorporated many of the monastic buildings.
		Newstead Abbey house was purchased by Col Thomas Wildman, one of Lord Byron's school-fellows and an admirer of the poet's work. Wildman made a fortune from sugar plantations in the West Indies and in 1818 - 29 he used much of this money to restore Newstead Abbey.
		Newstead Abbey, set in the heart of ancient Sherwood Forest, is surrounded by over 300 acres of grounds. To the south of the house is the famous Japanese garden, created by William Frederick Webb's daughter. Lord Byron's dog is buried near the high altar in the grassy site of the priory church..
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/house-nottinghamshire-newstead-abbey.htm (430 words)

	Student Travel Information & Discounts - Events: Visitor Information: Newstead Abbey (Newstead Abbey, Ravenshead, ...
		Newstead Abbey is a beautiful historic house set in landscaped gardens and parkland in the heart of Nottinghamshire.
		Newstead remained in Byron family ownership until the poet sold it to Thomas Wildman in 1818.
		Newstead can be visited throughout the year, although during the winter months it is closed at weekends.
	www.istc.org /sisp/index.htm?fx=event.detail&event_id=110573 (411 words)

	Lord Byron and Newstead Abbey - The Red Pill
		Newstead Abbey would become the scene of much revelry and many an outrageous affair hosted by Byron, the wild young lord who drank from a skull goblet with a gold rim was a scandal and cultivating his reputation for wickedness.
		It is remarked at the Abbey, that the rooks, though they sally forth on forays throughout the week, yet keep about the venerable edifice on Sundays, as if they had inherited a reverence for the day, from their ancient confreres, the monks.
		On a road from Larch Farm (A60), near to Newstead Abbey gate entrance, there is a footpath to Fountain Dale where, on a bridge crossing a stream, Robin Hood and Little John fought at their first meeting; in the same area is Friar Tuck's well.
	redpill.dailygrail.com /wiki/Lord_Byron_and_Newstead_Abbey (6321 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Newstead Abbey
		The title and Newstead Abbey was then left to his great-nephew, George Gordon, who became the 6th Baron Byron when the 5th Lord died on 21 May 1798, at the age of seventy-nine.
		Newstead Abbey, founded in the 12th century, was purchased after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by the poet's ancestor, Sir John Byron of Colwick. Sir John's house was constructed around the the old cloister garth and incorporated many of the monastic buildings.
		Newstead Abbey, set in the heart of ancient Sherwood Forest, is surrounded by over 300 acres of grounds. To the south of the house is the famous Japanese garden, created by William Frederick Webb's daughter. Lord Byron's dog is buried near the high altar in the grassy site of the priory church..
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Newstead-Abbey (2059 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Great Houses of Nottinghamshire: Newstead Abbey
		The abbey was founded in the twelfth century for the accommodation of a set of canons, and attached to it was a good deal of waste territory in Sherwood Forest, in which Newstead stood.
		In 1540 the abbey was granted to Sir John Byron, Knight, Lieutenant of the Forest of Sherwood, and his heirs, who spent money in destroying its monastic appearance, and converting it into a mansion, suited to the requirements of a sixteenth century country gentleman of wealth and title.
		Newstead Abbey has had the good fortune to get into the hands of those whose wealth and taste have enabled them to improve the estate, to maintain the house with becoming splendour, and whose liberality has been wide and generous enough to open its portals to the respectable portion of the public.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /Jacks1881/newstead.htm (2011 words)

	Newstead Abbey : What's On When : Regional Information : Kings Hotel : Best Western Hotels Great Britain
		Newstead Abbey is a beautiful historic house set in landscaped gardens and parkland in the heart of Nottinghamshire.
		Newstead remained in Byron family ownership until the poet sold it to Thomas Wildman in 1818.
		Newstead can be visited throughout the year, although during the winter months it is closed at weekends.
	www.bestwestern.co.uk /Hotels/Best-Western-Kings-Hotel-83815/Regional-Info/Whats-On-When/Details.aspx?Event=110573&Month= (481 words)

	MDC - Newstead Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Newstead Abbey needs to win the hearts and votes of television viewers across the country next week - and is seeking your support.
		At stake is TV's £1.8 million Restoration fund that would save the West Front of the abbey's 13th century priory church for future generations and rescue its exquisite carvings from the destructive effects of time, weather erosion, water penetration and pollution.
		Newstead Abbey will be shown on Restoration at 9pm on Tuesday, August 3.
	www.mansfield.gov.uk /pr_newsteadabbey.htm (209 words)

	Newstead Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Newstead was granted to Sir John Byron in 1540, "with the manor of Papelwick, a rectory of the same, and all the closes about the priory, etc., etc." He fitted up a portion of the monastic buildings as a residence, but the church was let go to decay.
		It was an abbey founded by Henry 11., as one of many peace-offerings to the enraged Church, for adding a martyr to its calender, by the sacrifice of the imperious and wily Becket.
		It was magnificently built in the spirit of the age, and was intended in its structure and endowments to prove the repentance of the politic king.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/newstead_abbey.html (1136 words)

	Newstead Abbey photographs, maps, books & memories
		Be the first to add a memory of Newstead Abbey or a Newstead Abbey photograph.
		Newstead was inherited by the ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ poet Lord Byron in 1798 as a virtual ruin, and he sold it in 1817.
		A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion of the stables, which were subsequently extended to the right of the view in 1862.
	www.francisfrith.com /search/england/nottinghamshire/newstead+abbey/newstead+abbey.htm (226 words)

	Haunted Hamilton - Ghosts of the World - England - Newstead Abbey
		Although never an abbey in the sense that we perceive, Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, England was a house built from the remains of a twelfth century Augustinian Priory.
		Sir John Byron's illegitimate son, who later became known as "Little Sir John with the Great Beard", inherited Newstead Abbey in 1576 by Deed of Grant, and it was his great grandson, another John who became the first Baron Byron of Rochdale in 1643.
		Thomas Wildman had bought Newstead from Byron in 1817, and when he and his wife learned of Sophia's love of Byron's work they allowed her to walk the grounds of their home whenever she pleased.
	www.hauntedhamilton.com /gotw_newsteadabbey.html (785 words)

	Newstead Abbey - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, central England, on the border of Sherwood Forest, between Nottingham and Mansfield.
		It was founded c.1170 by Henry II in atonement for the murder of Thomas à Becket.
		Lord Byron lived at the abbey intermittently from 1798 to 1816; he sold it in 1818.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-newstead.html (247 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Link's with Old Nottingham: Newstead Abbey
		Newstead was a royal foundation established by Henry II.
		Indeed, one of the many interests of a visit to Newstead is to study the ingenious manner in which the sixteenth century house was fitted into the other buildings.
		Newstead has its ghost story, and the shade of the Black Canon who appears as a bringer of ill tidings to the owner of the house, is firmly believed in the neighbourhood.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /whatnall1928/newstead_abbey.htm (388 words)

	International Byron Society - Newstead Abbey Chapel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Newstead Abbey or more correctly Newstead Priory, was founded in 1179 by Henry II for canons regular of the order of St Augustine.
		Newstead was in the ownership of the Webb family for 70 years until 1931, when Mr C I Fraser sold about half the Abbey to Sir Julien Cahn, who presented it to the City of Nottingham.
		Newstead Colliery Church, also a 'Liberty', was built in 1928 when the chaplain moved from the Old Vicarage beyond the Abbey stables, to Newstead Village.
	www.internationalbyronsociety.org /chapel.asp (1030 words)

	Newstead Abbey - The Open Guide to Nottingham
		Newstead Abbey is a beautiful house set in a picturesque landscape in the north of the county.
		The abbey front was kept, and was seen on the BBC programme "Restoration" last year.
		Newstead Abbey Gardens are open daily from 9.00 am until 6.00pm (or dusk, whichever is earlier), except for the last day in November and Christmas Day when the Park is closed.
	nottingham.openguides.org /?Newstead_Abbey (388 words)

	Newstead Abbey on AboutBritain.com
		Founded as a monastic house in the late twelfth century, Newstead became the Byron family seat in 1540.
		Newstead Abbey remained a private country house until 1931, when it was presented to the Nottingham Corporation for the public to enjoy.
		Newstead Abbey formal gardens are the perfect place for a stroll along paths that meander past attractive lakes, ponds and waterfalls.
	www.aboutbritain.com /NewsteadAbbey.htm (714 words)

	Newstead Abbey - Great Britain And Ireland
		Our drive to Newstead lay through what was once a portion of Sherwood Forest, tho all of it, I believe, has now become private property, and is converted into fertile fields, except where the owners of estates have set out plantations.
		It comprises the western wall of the church, which is all that remains of that fabric, a great, central window, entirely empty, without tracery or mullions; the ivy clambering up on the inside of the wall, and hanging over in front.
		No doubt, in his lordship's day, these were the only comfortable bedrooms in the Abbey; and by the housekeeper's ac-count of what Colonel Wildman has done, it is to be inferred that the place must have been in a most wild, shaggy, tumble-down condition, inside and out, when he bought it.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles13/travel-39.shtml (1338 words)

	Newstead Abbey
		Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire was the home of the famous, some might say infamous, poet Lord Byron.
		Founded as a priory in the late 12th century Newstead Abbey was closed by Henry VIII in 1539.
		Newstead Abbey also has an interesting number of ghosts, although not surprisingly I once again failed to spot even one of the spectral residents.
	louisabrown.net /newstead.htm (474 words)

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		MYSTERY surrounds the identity of a woman who was beaten to death before being dumped at the Dispatch district's main tourist attraction, Newstead Abbey.
		All they are sure of is that she was killed elsewhere and then dumped in the abbey grounds.
		Newstead Abbey became the seat of the Byron family in 1540.
	www.lep.co.uk /viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=743&ArticleID=764773 (669 words)

	Newstead Village
		Newstead Village, formerly Newstead Colliery Village, with a population of about 1200 is situated approximately 10 miles to the north west of Nottingham and within 3 miles of junction 27 of the M1 motorway.
		For much of its life Newstead Colliery had been one of the most productive and profitable coal mine in the country, and a pioneer in innovative mining techniques.
		The village is also a gateway to the historic Newstead Abbey and grounds.
	www.newsteadvillage.org (124 words)

	Community Group Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Newstead Treefest community group have in recent years taken responsibility for mowing the site, repairing fences and removing waste.
		Members of the community in Newstead have expressed an interest in improving the visual aspect of the road that leads from the train station to the centre of the village.
		Newstead Village is home to a number of visual artists and craft workers.
	www.newsteadvillage.org /cgn.html (505 words)

	Newstead Abbey - Nottinghamshire Tourism at OneNottingham.com
		Newstead Abbey, best known as the former home of the poet Lord Byron, was originally an Augustinian priory founded by Henry II in about 1170.
		He spent this wealth repairing and restoring Newstead, which was in a very poor state when he bought it.
		Mr Fraser sold Newstead to the Nottinghamshire philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn, who presented it to Nottingham Corporation in 1931.
	www.onenottingham.com /tourism/newstead_abbey.asp (316 words)

	Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, Washington Irving - Section 1 of 14 - Book Club/Fiction - ArcaMax Publishing
		On our way to the Abbey he gave me some anecdotes of Johnny Bower to whom his father had alluded; he was sexton of the parish and custodian of the ruin, employed to keep it in order and show it to strangers;--a worthy little man, not without ambition in his humble sphere.
		In the interior of the Abbey Johnny Bower conducted me to the identical stone on which Stout "William of Deloraine" and the monk took their seat on that memorable night when the wizard's book was to be rescued from the grave.
		This was a great double tallow candle stuck upon the end of a pole, with which he could conduct his visitors about the ruins on dark nights, so much to their satisfaction that, at length, he began to think it even preferable to the moon itself.
	www.arcamax.com /fiction/b-1628 (3265 words)

	Touring Robin Hood's Nottinghamshire on Britannia: Newstead Abbey
		Newstead Abbey was in fact a priory, the home of Augustinian Canons from the time of its foundation in 1163.
		After the Dissolution, Newstead was purchased by Sir John Byron of Colwick who promptly demolished all but the west front of the abbey church in order to build himself a grand mansion.
		This building did, however, incorporate many of the remaining monastic buildings and there is much of the ancient monastery still to see encased in the later house: the chapter house, several undercrofts, the cloister.
	www.britannia.com /tours/rhood/newstead.html (267 words)

	Newstead Abbey Ravenshead and places to stay nearby
		Newstead Abbey was the Estate which Lord Byron inherited and was forced to sell.
		The Gardens at Newstead Abbey are in a beautiful setting amongst lakes and streams, and approached by a mile long drive.
		2007 The Newstead Abbey Grounds are open all year with the exception of the last Friday in November and Christmas Day.
	www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk /newstead_abbey.htm (159 words)

	Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, UK - Historic house and gardens, Ancestral home of Poet Lord Byron
		Newstead Abbey - Adopt a stone - West Front A chance to add your own story to the history of Newstead
		Welcome to Newstead Abbey, a beautiful historic house set in a glorious landscape of gardens and parkland within the heart of Nottinghamshire, England.
		The Abbey's most famous owner, the poet Lord Byron, sold the property in 1818 to his friend Colonel Thomas Wildman.
	www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk /newstead (343 words)

	Newstead Abbey
		The story of the 'White Lady' ghost is one of the many attractions of Newstead Abbey.
		The building and park are owned by Nottingham City Council and were once the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron.
		The Abbey is best know for its links with the poet George Gordon 6th Lord Byron.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /northnotts/newstead.htm (150 words)

	Buy.com - Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey; Spanish Voyages of Discovery : Washington Irving : ISBN 9780766185173
		Buy.com - Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey; Spanish Voyages of Discovery : Washington Irving : ISBN 9780766185173
		Washington Irving was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and is considered to be the Father of the American Short Story.
		Contents of Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey include: Abbotsford; Newstead Abbey; Arrival at the Abbey; The Abbey Garden; Plough Monday; Old Servants; Superstitions of the Abbey; Annesley Hall; The Lake; Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest; The Rook Cell; and The Little White Lady.
	www.buy.com /prod/Abbotsford_and_Newstead_Abbey_Spanish_Voyages_of_Discovery/q/loc/106/36373829.html (295 words)

	Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, UK - Historic house and gardens, Ancestral home of Poet Lord Byron
		Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, UK - Historic house and gardens, Ancestral home of Poet Lord Byron
		The poet's fame increased with the brilliant success of more verse tales about brooding outlaws and distant lands, published soon after.
		Homepage Latest news Historic House Newstead Abbey Gardens
	www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk /newstead/byron/fame.asp (233 words)

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