'Whitby Abbey', c1870. 7th-century Whitby Abbey, a centre of medieval Northumbria was confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries 1536-1545 and is now a Grade I Listed building. From "Picturesque Europe - The British Isles, Vol. I". [Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, c1870]

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