Flaxley Abbey
Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a Grade I listed English country house and private residence, near the village of Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is the former seat of the Crawley-Boevey Baronets.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Building
- Description: former Cistercian monastery in Gloucestershire, UK
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley and Welshbury Hill.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley is situated 610 feet southwest of Flaxley Abbey.
Welshbury Hill
Archaeological site
Welshbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort near Mitcheldean in Gloucestershire, England. It is thought to have been built by Celts and dates back to 1600 BC. Welshbury Hill is situated 4,100 feet west of Flaxley Abbey.
Blaisdon Hall
Building
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blaisdon Hall is a Grade II* listed building at Blaisdon. It includes a 0.07-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1995. Blaisdon Hall is situated 1 mile northeast of Flaxley Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flaxley and Pope’s Hill.
Flaxley
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Flaxley is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blaisdon, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is located in between the larger villages of Westbury-on-Severn and Mitcheldean.
Pope’s Hill
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pope's Hill is a hill and a small village situated in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire within the parish of Littledean. The hill is 12 miles south west of Gloucester and 3 miles east of Cinderford.
Abenhall
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abenhall is a small village in the civil parish of Mitcheldean, in the Forest of Dean district of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the road between Mitcheldean and Flaxley in the Forest of Dean. Abenhall is situated 1½ miles northwest of Flaxley Abbey.
Flaxley Abbey
- Categories: abbey and historic site
- Location: Blaisdon, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.83653° or 51° 50′ 12″ northLongitude
-2.45108° or 2° 27′ 4″ westElevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C3VRGPX+JHOpenStreetMap ID
way 438522115OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=abbeyGeoNames ID
11549686Wikidata ID
Q574906
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Flaxley Abbey” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Flaxley Abbey”
- French: “abbaye de Flaxley”
- French: “Abbaye de Flaxley”
- German: “Flaxley Abbey”
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