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Hartlepool Abbey

In or near Hartlepool.

Hartlepool Abbey — abbey in Headland, Hartlepool, England, UK.

Hartlepool Abbey

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Hartlepool Abbey is a abbey in lowlands. (Former monastery in Hartlepool, County Durham, England.) Wikipedia notes: "Hartlepool Abbey, also known as Heretu Abbey, Hereteu Abbey, Heorthu Abbey or Herutey Abbey, was a Northumbrian monastery founded in 640 CE by Hieu, the first of the saintly recluses of Northumbria, and Aidan of Lindisfarne, on the Headland Estate of Hartlepool now called the Heugh or Old Hartlepool, in County Durham, England.". Coordinates 54.6950°, -1.1808°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates
54.6950, -1.1808

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