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Shaftesbury Abbey

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Shaftesbury Abbey — abbey in Dorset, England (888–1539).

Shaftesbury Abbey

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Shaftesbury Abbey is a abbey in south east. (Abbey in Shaftesbury, Dorset.) Wikipedia notes: "Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII.". Coordinates 51.0053°, -2.1986°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates
51.0053, -2.1986

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