• Low walls laid out on the general plan of Leicester Abbey, which was established during excavations in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Lovely huge gardens linked by a new pack horse bridge. You can walk either to the canal or the river. As for Leicester Abbey, only ruins remain.
  • The abbey site was eventually purchased by the Leicester Town Council and transformed into a public park known as Abbey Park.
  • The abbey was also granted all of the other churches in Leicester, together with a number in Leicestershire and further afield.
  • Lovely huge gardens linked by a new pack horse bridge. You can walk either to the canal or the river. As for Leicester Abbey, only ruins remain.
  • The remains of Leicester Abbey are to be found in Abbey Park, a large area of green space towards the north of the city.
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  • Leicester Abbey was founded in 1138-9 as an abbey of Augustinian canons by Robert ‘le Bossu’ , the second Earl of Leicester.
  • Accused of treason, he narrowly avoided Henry VIII’s ‘justice’ on the scaffold and instead died of natural causes at Leicester Abbey on 29 November 1530.
  • A lovely walk through Leicester's astonishing Abbey. Just foundations there, but it's so filled with history and description, you can get do immersed.
  • Leicester, Leicestershire, England. ... The abbey was torn down during the Reformation, and stones were used in the construction of Cavendish House next door.
  • In 1143 an abbey of Augustinian canons was founded at Leicester in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester. (fn.
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