Carrow Abbey

Carrow Abbey is a former Benedictine priory in Bracondale, southeast Norwich, England. The village on the site used to be called Carrow and gives its name to Carrow Road, the football ground of Norwich F.C., located just metres to the north.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Carrow Road and Norwich railway station.

Carrow Road

Stadium

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Carrow Road is a football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum. Carrow Road is situated 1,400 feet north of Carrow Abbey.

Norwich railway station

Railway station

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Norwich railway station is the northern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the cathedral city of Norwich, Norfolk. Norwich railway station is situated 3,000 feet north of Carrow Abbey.

Trowse Swing Bridge

Bridge

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Trowse Swing Bridge is the name of three railway bridges which have carried the Great Eastern Main Line over the River Wensum just outside Norwich in Norfolk, England. Trowse Swing Bridge is situated 1,300 feet northeast of Carrow Abbey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trowse and Thorpe Hamlet.

Trowse

Village

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Trowse, also called Trowse with Newton, is a village in Norfolk, England. It lies about 2 miles south-east of Norwich city centre, on the banks of the River Yare.

Thorpe Hamlet

Suburb

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Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.

Norwich

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Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…

Carrow Abbey

Type: Building
Description: Grade I listed abbey in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Category: abbey
Location: Norwich District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.61823° or 52° 37′ 6″ north

Longitude

1.31096° or 1° 18′ 40″ east

Open location code

9F43J896+79

OpenStreetMap ID

way 460206091

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q5046726

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Turkish—“Carrow Abbey” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Abadia de Carrow”
Turkish: “Carrow Abbey”

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Highlights include Carrow House and Bracondale Grove.

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