East of England
Hertfordshire
City & District of St. Albans

Sopwell Priory

Sopwell Priory was a Benedictine nunnery founded around 1140 on the site of an ancient hermitage in Sopwell, , England. After the Dissolution, the priory was torn down and a Tudor manor house constructed in its place.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: monastery in Hertfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Sopwell Nunnery”, “Sopwell Nunnery Ruins”, and “The Benedictine Priory of St Mary (Sopwell Priory) and the post-medieval mansions known as Sopwell House or Lee Hall”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Albans Cathedral and Odyssey Cinema.

Church
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, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in , England. is situated 2,900 feet northwest of Sopwell Priory.

Movie theater
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The is a film theatre in the city of , Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It is a locally listed Art Deco building, located on London Road, around 0.7 kilometres east of . is situated 1,400 feet north of Sopwell Priory.

Railway station
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St Albans Abbey is one of two railway stations in , , England; the other being the busier, much larger and a decade younger . is situated 1,800 feet west of Sopwell Priory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Stephens and St Albans.

Suburb
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St Albans is a cathedral city in , England, east of and west of , 20 miles north-west of , 8 miles south-west of and 11 miles south-east of .

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is an cathedral city to the north of , in the county of . Its rich Roman and Medieval history means it is much more worth a visit than the typical commuter suburb.

Village
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is a small village in , England. It is on the southern outskirts of , around 2 miles south of the city centre, and is separated from the rest of the city's contiguous built-up area by a buffer to the north.

Sopwell Priory

Latitude
51.74423° or 51° 44′ 39″ north
Longitude
-0.33463° or 0° 20′ 5″ west
Open location code
9C3XPMV8+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1807004505
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q7563217
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In Other Languages

From Irish to Polish—“Sopwell Priory” goes by many names.
  • Irish: “Sopwell Priory”
  • Polish: “Klasztor Sopwell”
  • Polish: “Sopwell”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St Peter’s School and Watercress Wildlife Association.

Nearby Places

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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 “Sopwell Priory”. Photo: Przsak, CC BY-SA 3.0.