Anglesey Abbey
Jacobean country house built from a medieval priory's remains, with formal gardens and a working watermill.
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This guide to Anglesey Abbey, near Cambridge, is about the building itself: a medieval Augustinian priory and the Jacobean house that grew out of what was left of it. It touches the canons who lived here, the Dissolution under Henry the Eighth, and the lawyer John Hynde who was granted the site in its aftermath. Best heard in the living room, with the old walls around you.
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