Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England.

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Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England.

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Caption: Bolton Abbey Estate in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England, takes its name from a 12th-century Augustinian monastery of canons regular, now known as Bolton Priory. The priory, which was closed in the 1539 Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by King Henry VIII, is in the Yorkshire Dales, which lies next to the village of Bolton Abbey.

Keywords: Augustinian, Bolton Abbey, Bolton Priory, Dissolution of the Abbeys, England, Henry VIII, River Wharfe, Wharfedale, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales, architecture, historic building, history, religious building, ruin

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