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Shap Abbey.

The home to an order of Premonstratensian Canons. Built in 1199 and closed in 1540. It then became a quarry for local building projects.. The remains remain impressive and the location, in a valley bottom next to the River Lowther, is the embodiment of Romanticisms.

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Uploaded on August 20, 2024
Taken on February 17, 2015