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Later called Lord's Walk, the half-mile strip along the riverbank had been opened to the public by 1915. [7] It was sold to Amesbury Parish Council in two tranches, in 1950 and 1978, and today is a public amenity. [17] After 1735, the Duke of Queensberry acquired land west of the river which included the Iron Age hillfort called Vespasian's ...
Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II , who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud , known as Amesbury Priory .
The relationship between the church and the 10th-century Amesbury Priory or its 12th-century successor, Amesbury Abbey, is uncertain. The only archaeological evidence of the monasteries comes from construction work in 1859–1860 when extensive medieval foundations, including a richly tiled floor, [ 11 ] were found immediately north of the ...
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Grounds of Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury: Gate: 1775: 10 January 1953: 1131082: Baluster Bridge and Gate Piers: Bank House, later Marlborough House Westbury, Wiltshire: House: Early 18th century: 29 December 1950
The Amesbury Priory buildings were subsequently obtained from the Crown before 22 April 1540 by Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, [91] a nephew to Jane Seymour, Queen consort of Henry VIII, and the eldest son of her brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England during the minority of King Edward VI, the Earl's ...
He succeeded his cousin Charles as Duke of Queensberry in 1778, and was created Lord Douglas, Baron Douglas, of Amesbury in the County of Wiltshire in the Peerage of Great Britain on 8 August 1786. [4] In 1799 he was estimated the eighth-wealthiest man (or small family unit) in Britain, owning £1M (equivalent to £124,100,000 in 2023). [5]
Lowell's Boat Shop (Hiram Lowell & Sons) is a National Historic Landmark at 459 Main Street in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The shop was built in 1793 by Simeon Lowell. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.