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Buckland Abbey, front Buckland Abbey, rear view. Buckland Abbey is a Grade I listed [1] 700-year-old house in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, England, noted for its connection with Sir Richard Grenville the Younger and Sir Francis Drake.
The Garden House is an open garden located in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England. The first house built in 1305 was intended to be a home for the vicars of the civil parish . The gardens are now open to the public and are home to a number of historical features, including the ruins of the old vicarage , a 14th-century barn , and a 17th-century ...
Buckland Monachorum is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England, situated on the River Tavy, about 10 miles north of Plymouth. In 2006 the neighbourhood had an estimated 1,511 residents and 654 dwellings. The electoral ward of the same name gave a population of 3,380 at the 2011 census. [1]
The baronets' seat was originally Buckland Abbey, Sir Francis Drake's home, but upon their inheritance of Nutwell Court, near Exeter, the Drakes ceased to live year-round at Buckland. A daughter of the fourth baronet was the wife of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield , the defender of Gibraltar , and their descendants ultimately ...
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Buckinghamshire, England.. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller).
Yelverton is a large village on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. [1] It is in the civil parish of Buckland Monachorum . [ 2 ] According to the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,858, which was slightly more than the 1,810 recorded at the 2011 census.
Sir Francis Henry Drake, 4th Baronet (1694–1740) of Buckland Abbey, Devon was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1740. Buckland Abbey tower Nutwell Court before 1800
The cross was probably erected during Edward the Confessor's reign (1042–1066), and stands at the junction of two main tracks across the moor: The Monks’ Path and the Abbots’ Way, both of which link Buckfast Abbey to Tavistock Abbey and Buckland Abbey. [23] It was knocked down in 1846 and the shaft broken.