Egglestone Abbey
Egglestone Abbey is a ruined Premonstratensian abbey in County Durham, England. It is located 1+1⁄2 miles south-east of Barnard Castle, on the south bank of the River Tees, and was historically within the North Riding of Yorkshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: abbey
- Also known as: “Eggleston Abbey”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bowes Museum and Rokeby Park.
Bowes Museum
Museum
The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, and opened in 1892.
Rokeby Park
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rokeby Park is a country house in the Palladian style in the civil parish of Rokeby, in Northern England. It is close to the confluence of the River Tees and River Greta, near Greta Bridge in what is now County Durham.
HM Prison Deerbolt
Prison
HM Prison Deerbolt is a male Category C Training Prison in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barnard Castle and Startforth.
Barnard Castle
Photo: Nick Bramhall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barnard Castle is a small market town in County Durham in North East England. It has a picturesque ruined castle and the over-the-top Bowes Museum. Dickens, Wordsworth, JMW Turner, Defoe and Sir Walter Scott were all inspired here.
Startforth
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Startforth is a village on the Pennines end of south Teesdale, England. The population of Startforth taken at the 2011 Census was 1,361. It was in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire.
Boldron
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boldron is a village in the Pennines of England, situated close to Barnard Castle. It was historically located in the North Riding of Yorkshire, but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
Egglestone Abbey
- Categories: abbey, monastery, tourism, and historic site
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5313° or 54° 31′ 53″ northLongitude
-1.9052° or 1° 54′ 19″ westElevation
581 feet (177 metres)Operator
English HeritageOpen location code
9C6WG3JV+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 148863677OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monasteryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Egglestone Abbey” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “abadia d’Egglestone”
- Cebuano: “Eggleston Abbey”
- Chinese: “艾高斯頓修道院”
- French: “abbaye d’Egglestone”
- French: “Abbaye d’Egglestone”
- German: “Egglestone Abbey”
- Swedish: “Eggleston Abbey”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Egglestone Abbey”. Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.