Barking Abbey

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Barking Abbey

abbey, Barking and Dagenham, London, United Kingdom

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Barking and Dagenham
…the area was centred on Barking Abbey (founded c. 666), which, before the dissolution of monastic institutions in the 1530s, was the preeminent Benedictine nunnery in England. William the Conqueror stayed at Barking Abbey during the construction of the Norman keep (the White Tower of the Tower of London). The…
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…the area was centred on Barking Abbey (founded c. 666), which, before the dissolution of monastic institutions in the 1530s, was the preeminent Benedictine nunnery in England. William the Conqueror stayed at Barking Abbey during the construction of the Norman keep (the White Tower of the Tower of London). The…
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