Gardens · South West England
Lee Abbey
Lee Abbey — a garden in england-south-west, United Kingdom.
Ian Capper — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Lee Abbey is a garden of interest in england-south-west, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Lee Abbey, founded in 1946, is an ecumenical Christian community between Woody Bay and Lynmouth in Devon, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The first building on the site may have been a farmhouse built by Cistercian abbots of Forde Abbey around 1200. The current Gothic Revival buildings are from the 1850s. In the 1920s it was bought and used unsuccessfully as a hotel. During World War II a boys' school was evacuated to Lee Abbey. After the war the dilapidated buildings were bought for use as a Christian retreat, and extensive building work has taken place from the 1950s to the present day. The site now offers retreats, group weekends and Christian family holidays. The community also has accommodation in London. There is a beach with parking (a small donation is required), and there are wash rooms, a tea shop (not open Sundays or during the winter) and an occasional shop.
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Background
History
The earliest record of the site currently occupied by Lee Abbey is in the Domesday Book of 1086, in which it is recorded as "Ley". and it may have been used as a tenanted farm. By the 17th century, the land had passed into the possession of Hugh de Wichehalse, a member of a large Devon family originally based at Wych, near Chudleigh. De Wichehalse was a resident of Barnstaple, and his maternal grandfather had been mayor of the town, but he left with his family following a bubonic plague epidemic in Barnstaple and nearby Bideford in 1627, settling in the farmhouse at the site of Lee Abbey, then known as the "Grange Farm of Lee". De Wichehalse made extensive renovations and extensions to the…
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- Coordinates
- 51.2278, -3.8661
- Established
- 1946
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lee Abbey?
- Lee Abbey is in South West England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.2278°, -3.8661°.
- When was Lee Abbey built?
- Lee Abbey dates to 1946.