Wyresdale Abbey was a short-lived medieval monastic house in

Over Wyresdale Over Wyresdale is a civil parish and a parish of the Church of England in the City of Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire. It has a population of 348, decreasing to 316 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes the hamlets of Abbeystead, ...

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. It was founded around 1170 or a little later and ceased to exist by 1204. Cistercian monks from St Mary of Furness built the monastery near the end of the reign of Henry II. Its charter was granted between 1194 and 1198. The chaplain of St. Michael-on-the-Wyre was appointed chaplain of the monks for life. The only remaining traces of the abbey are some carved stones reused in other buildings. The village of

Abbeystead Abbeystead is a small hamlet located in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in Lancashire, England. Abbeystead lies close to the Trough of Bowland but even in medieval times, was considered part of Wyresdale rather than w ...

takes its name from Wyresdale Abbey and is situated just north of its former site.

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