Best of East Midlands
The 20 best burial mounds & barrows in East Midlands
Our curated top 20 burial mounds & barrows in East Midlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 38 burial mounds & barrows see the full burial mounds & barrows index for East Midlands.
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Dale Abbey
Derbyshire
Dale Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Stanley Park, was a religious house, close to Ilkeston in Derbyshire. Its ruins are located at the village of Dale Abbey, which is named after it. Its foundation
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Rufford Abbey
Nottinghamshire
Rufford Abbey is a country estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England, two miles (4 km) south of Ollerton. Originally a Cistercian abbey, it was converted to a country house in the 16th century after
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Welbeck Abbey
Nottinghamshire
Welbeck Abbey is a historic country house near the village of Welbeck in the Bassetlaw District of Nottinghamshire, situated in the Dukeries, four contiguous ducal estates, between Worksop and Ollerto
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Swineshead Abbey
Lincolnshire
Swineshead Abbey was an abbey in Swineshead, Lincolnshire. The Abbey of St Mary, a Cistercian monastery, was founded in 1134 by Robert de Gresley. Gresley and his son, Albert, endowed the Abbey with 2
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Kirkstead Abbey
Lincolnshire
Kirkstead Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, England. The monastery was founded in 1139 by Hugh Brito, (or Hugh son of Eudo), lord of Tattershall, and was originally co
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Walsingham Priory
Norfolk
Walsingham Priory, originally established in the 12th century, was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. Also known as the Augustinian Priory of The Annunciation o
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Bardney Abbey
Lincolnshire
Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish
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Tupholme Abbey
Lincolnshire
Tupholme Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey close to the River Witham some 10.5 miles (16.9 km) east of the city of Lincoln, England and one of nine such abbeys within the historical county. The With
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Monk's Abbey
Lincolnshire
Details This record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our olde
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Revesby Abbey
Lincolnshire
Revesby Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Revesby in Lincolnshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1143 by William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln, and the first monks came from Rieva
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Creake Abbey
Norfolk
Creake Abbey is a ruined abbey in Norfolk, England, situated alongside the River Burn and a mile to the north of the village of North Creake. The abbey church was dedicated to Saint Mary. The ruins ar
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Beauchief Abbey
Beauchief Abbey is a medieval monastic house now serving as a parish church in the southern suburbs of Sheffield, England.
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Hagnaby Abbey
Lincolnshire
Hagnaby Abbey was an abbey and former priory in Hagnaby, Lincolnshire, England. It was one of nine Premonstratensian houses within the historical county. It was founded as a house for Premonstratensia
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Croxden Abbey
Staffordshire
Croxden Abbey, also known as "Abbey of the Vale of St. Mary at Croxden", was a Cistercian abbey at Croxden, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. A daughter house of the abbey in Aunay-sur-Odon, Normandy, th
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Roche Abbey
Roche Abbey is a now-ruined abbey in the civil parish of Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is in the valley of Maltby Dyke, known locally as Maltby Beck, and is administered by English H
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Bourne Abbey
Lincolnshire
Bourne Abbey and the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a scheduled Grade I church in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. The building remains in parochial use, despite the 16th-century Dissolution
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Burton Abbey
Staffordshire
Burton Abbey at Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as a Benedictine abbey by the thegn Wulfric Spott.
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Louth Park Abbey
Lincolnshire
Louth Park Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1139 by the Bishop Alexander of Lincoln as a daughter-house of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire.
