Godstow Abbey
Riverside ruins of a twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery on the edge of a vast common meadow.
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This guide to Godstow Abbey, the ruined nunnery beside the Thames just north of Oxford, follows Rosamund Clifford, mistress of King Henry the Second, and the shrine that grew up around her tomb. It reaches back to the widow Ediva and the island she chose in eleven thirty-three, and forward to the bishop who came to pray in eleven ninety-one. Stand by the broken walls facing the river and Port Meadow.
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