| Show engliski englisbe Engli sli abbey built years ago now up for sale rufford abbey year old english estate is being put up for sale london lon don papers report the estate contains acres and includes the abbey founded in the reign of king stephen partly rebuilt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an ancient deer park of more than acres it also includes the whole or greater greatt t part of the villages and parishes of old ollerton eakring earring Ea kring wellow bellow bilsthorpe Bils thorpe and ompton ampton as well as parts of walesby egmann egmanton Eg manton on ed winstone win stowe barnsfield farnsfield Farns field eld kirton blid i worth and ad tuxford the estate comprises co about 70 farms 38 small mall S holdings four our licensed houses including the famous hop pole at ollerton many private residences reside aces and shops nearly nealy 2000 acres of woods and plantations and hundreds of cottages one of the most famous estates in the th duk eries rufford abbey never has been in the market before and its forthcoming sale will be one of the outstanding transactions of recent years in real estate lands at I 1 rufford were recorded lung lorg before but its history as an ab 1 bey began in 1148 when gilbert de gaunt earl of lincoln founded an a abbey there dedicated it to the honor of the blessed virgin mary and colonized it with cistercian monks from Bie vaulx abbey the abbey lands increased and from the earliest times the monks enjoyed enjoy ed special privileges in the surrounding forest of sherwood the abbots became rich enough to entertain royalty a and nd september 18 1290 rufford received the first of many subsequent royal visitors edward I 1 passed a night there and sealed a variety of documents d documents the rich abbey attracted the attention of henry he nry commissioners when he was considering the dissolution of the monasteries and in 1537 he annexed the abbey and it and allias all its lands to george gave earl of shrewsbury with whose descendants it ever since has re remained mailed thus began rufford abbeys abbey s year existence as a country coun try house h ouse the chapel of 1 the abbey was the scene of the wedding in 1574 of charles stuart younger brother of darnley and elizabeth cavendish |
