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This is a
List of Cistercian monasteries (called
abbeys ) in
Great Britain . The first
Cistercian abbey in Great Britain was
Waverley Abbey in
Surrey , founded in 1128. In the next few years further abbeys were founded in other parts of
Britain , notably
Yorkshire and in
Scotland and
Wales .
Currently active abbeys
Caldey Abbey ,
Caldey Island ,
Pembroke , Wales (1906, Cistercian from 1929,
Trappist )
Mount St. Bernard Abbey ,
Leicestershire , England (1835, Trappist)
Nunraw Abbey ,
East Lothian , Scotland (1946, Trappist)
Holy Cross Abbey in
Whitland , Wales
Trappist
Abbeys, now dissolved, ruined or destroyed
Given in brackets are the date of foundation and the
motherhouse which established the Abbey.
Aberconwy Abbey ,
Gwynedd , Wales (1283 Whitland)
Abbey Dore ,
Herefordshire , England (1147 Morimond)
Balmerino Abbey ,
Fife , Scotland (1227 Melrose)
Basingwerk Abbey ,
Flintshire , Wales (1131 Savigny)
Beaulieu Abbey ,
Hampshire , England (1203 Citeaux)
Biddlesden Abbey ,
Buckinghamshire , England (1147 Waverley)
Bindon Abbey ,
Dorset , England (1172 Waverley)
Bordesley Abbey ,
Worcestershire , England (1138 Waverley)
Boxley Abbey ,
Kent , England (1143 Clairvaux)
Bruern Abbey ,
Oxfordshire , England (1147 Waverley)
Buckfast Abbey ,
Devon , England (1136 Savigny)
Buckland Abbey ,
Devon , England (1278 Savigny)
Buildwas Abbey ,
Shropshire , England (1135 Savigny)
Byland Abbey ,
North Yorkshire , England (1135 Furness)
Calder Abbey ,
Cumbria , England (1143 Furness)
Cleeve Abbey ,
Somerset , England (1198 Rievaulx)
Coggeshall Abbey ,
Essex , England (1140 Savigny)
Combe Abbey ,
Warwickshire , England (1150 Waverley)
Combermere Abbey ,
Cheshire , England (1133 Savigny)
Coupar Angus Abbey ,
Perth and Kinross , Scotland (pre. 1154 Melrose)
Croxden Abbey ,
Staffordshire , England (1176 Aunay-sur-Odon)
Culross Abbey ,
Fife , Scotland (pre. 1217 Melrose)
Cwmhir Abbey ,
Powis , Wales (1143 Whitland)
Cymer Abbey ,
Gwynedd , Wales (1199 Whitland)
Deer Abbey ,
Aberdeenshire , Scotland (1219 Melrose)
Dieulacres Abbey ,
Staffordshire , England (1214 Combermere)
Dundrennan Abbey ,
Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland (1142 Rievaulx)
Dunkeswell Abbey ,
Devon , England (1201 Waverley)
Flaxley Abbey ,
Gloucestershire , England (1151 Waverley)
Forde Abbey ,
Dorset , England (1136 Waverley)
Fountains Abbey ,
North Yorkshire , England (founded 1132, admitted to the Cistercian order 1135, Clairvaux)
[1] : 23, 27
Furness Abbey ,
Cumbria , England (1123 Savigny)
Garendon Abbey ,
Leicestershire , England (1133 Waverley)
Glenluce Abbey ,
Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland (1191 Rievaulx)
Grace Dieu Abbey ,
Monmouthshire , Wales (1226 Waverley)
Hailes Abbey ,
Gloucestershire , England (1246 Citeaux)
Holmcultram Abbey ,
Cumbria , England (1150 Melrose)
Hulton Abbey ,
Staffordshire , England (1219 Savigny)
Jervaulx Abbey ,
North Yorkshire , England (1150 Byland)
Kingswood Abbey ,
Gloucestershire , England (1139 Tintern)
Kinloss Abbey ,
Moray , Scotland (1150 Melrose)
Kirkstall Abbey ,
West Yorkshire , England (1147 Fountains)
[1] : 43–44
Kirkstead Abbey ,
Lincolnshire , England (1139 Fountains)
[1] : 30
Llantarnam Abbey ,
Monmouthshire , Wales (1179 Whitland)
St. Mary Graces Abbey ,
London , England (1350 Beaulieu)
Louth Park Abbey ,
Lincolnshire , England (1137 Fountains)
[1] : 29
Margam Abbey ,
West Glamorgan , Wales (1147 Clairvaux)
Meaux Abbey ,
East Riding of Yorkshire , England (1151 Fountains)
[1] : 44
Medmenham Abbey ,
Buckinghamshire , England (1202 Fountains)
Melrose Abbey ,
Scottish Borders , Scotland (1136 Rievaulx)
Merevale Abbey ,
Warwickshire , England (1148 Waverley)
Neath Abbey ,
West Glamorgan , Wales (1130 Savigny)
Netley Abbey ,
Hampshire , England (1239 Beaulieu)
Newbattle Abbey ,
Midlothian , Scotland (1140 Melrose)
Newenham Abbey ,
Devon , England (1247 Beaulieu)
Newminster Abbey ,
Northumberland , England (1138 Fountains)
[1] : 30
Pipewell Abbey ,
Northamptonshire , England (1143 Newminster)
[1] : 44
Poulton Abbey ,
Cheshire , England (between 1153 and 1158 Combermere)
Quarr Abbey ,
Isle of Wight , England (1132 Savigny)
Revesby Abbey ,
Lincolnshire , England (1143 Rievaulx)
Rewley Abbey ,
Oxfordshire , England (1281 Waverley)
Rievaulx Abbey ,
North Yorkshire , England (1132 Clairvaux)
Robertsbridge Abbey ,
East Sussex , England (1176 Boxley)
Roche Abbey ,
South Yorkshire , England (1147 Newminster)
[1] : 44
Rufford Abbey ,
Nottinghamshire , England (1146 Rievaulx)
Saddell Abbey ,
Argyll and Bute , Scotland (early thirteenth century Mellifont)
St Bernard's College, Oxford , England (1437)
Sawley Abbey ,
Lancashire , England (1148 Newminster)
[1] : 44
Sawtry Abbey ,
Cambridgeshire , England (1147 Rievaulx)
Sibton Abbey ,
Suffolk , England (1150 Rievaulx)
[2]
[3]
Stanley Abbey ,
Wiltshire , England (1151 Quarr)
Stanlow Abbey ,
Cheshire , England (1178 Combermere)
Stoneleigh Abbey ,
Warwickshire , England (1141 Waverley)
Strata Florida Abbey ,
Ceredigion , Wales (1164 Whitland)
Strata Marcella Abbey ,
Powys , Wales (1170 Whitland)
Stratford Langthorne Abbey ,
Greater London , England (1135 Savigny)
Sweetheart Abbey ,
Galloway , Scotland (1273 Rievaulx)
Swineshead Abbey ,
Lincolnshire , England (1136 Furness)
Thame Abbey ,
Oxfordshire , England (1137 Waverley)
Tilty Abbey ,
Essex , England (1153 Rievaulx)
Tintern Abbey ,
Monmouthshire , Wales (1131 L'Aumone)
Vale Royal Abbey ,
Cheshire , England (1274 Abbey Dore)
Valle Crucis Abbey ,
Denbighshire , Wales (1201 Whitland)
Vaudey Abbey ,
Lincolnshire , England (1147 Fountains)
[1] : 44
Warden Abbey ,
Bedfordshire , England (1136 Rievaulx)
Waverley Abbey ,
Surrey , England (1128 L'Aumone)
Whalley Abbey ,
Lancashire , England (1172 Combermere)
Whitland Abbey ,
Carmarthenshire , Wales (1140 Clairvaux)
Woburn Abbey ,
Bedfordshire , England (1145 Fountains)
[1] : 43
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References
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