Bardney Abbey
Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish raid in 869.Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Monastery
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: abbey in Bardney, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bardney Abbey: Remains of a Benedictine Monastery, Fishponds, Post-Medieval House, and Formal Gardens”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Lawrence’s Church, Bardney and Southrey Wood.
St Lawrence’s Church, Bardney
Church
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Lawrence's Church is the parish church of Bardney in Lincolnshire, England. It is one of the oldest buildings in the village and the only one with Grade I listed status. St Lawrence’s Church, Bardney is situated 1 mile southeast of Bardney Abbey.
Southrey Wood
Forest
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southrey Wood is reserve near Bardney in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Butterfly Conservation manages this reserve. It is 22 acres in extent. The woodland forms part of the Bardney Limewoods National Nature Reserve. Southrey Wood is situated 2 miles southeast of Bardney Abbey.
Stainfield Priory
Monastery
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stainfield Priory was a Benedictine nunnery at Stainfield in the North of Lincolnshire, England, between Wragby and Fiskerton. The priory of St Mary at Stainfield was the only nunnery of the Benedictine order in Lincolnshire. Stainfield Priory is situated 1½ miles north of Bardney Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bardney and Stainfield.
Bardney
Village
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 at the 2011 census.
Stainfield
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stainfield is a village and civil parish about 10 miles east of the city of Lincoln, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 189. Stainfield is situated 1½ miles north of Bardney Abbey.
Tupholme Abbey
Locality
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tupholme Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey close to the River Witham some 10.5 miles east of the city of Lincoln, England and one of nine such abbeys within the historical county. Tupholme Abbey is situated 2½ miles southeast of Bardney Abbey.
Bardney Abbey
- Categories: abbey, ruins, historic site, and religion
- Location: Bardney, West Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.22041° or 53° 13′ 14″ northLongitude
-0.33343° or 0° 20′ 0″ westOperator
Society for Lincolnshire History and ArchaeologyOpen location code
9C5X6MC8+5JOpenStreetMap ID
way 153402782OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monasteryOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholicWikidata ID
Q4860175
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Bardney Abbey” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Abadia de Bardney”
- French: “abbaye de Bardney”
- French: “Abbaye de Bardney”
- German: “Bardney Abbey”
- Indonesian: “Keabasan Bardney”
- Indonesian: “Keabbasan Bardney”
- Portuguese: “Abadia de Bardney”
- Russian: “Аббатство Бардни”
- Russian: “Бардни”
- Swedish: “Bardney kloster”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include King’s Hill barrow and Snakeholme Pit Nature Reserve.
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