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My brother-in-law went back to work the second week I was there. My sister and I found a few interesting places to visit with the help of her Satellite Navigation Device, named Flossie!


 

Newstead Abbey is the ancestral home of the Byrons. It was originally a priory, but the monastery was dissolved by Henry VIII, who sold it to Sir John Byron. The Abbey continued in the Byron family until being sold by the poet. The facade and cloisters remain.

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