Valle Crucis Abbey seen from road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales. Ruined medieval Cistertian abbey

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Valle Crucis Abbey seen from road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales. Name means 'Valley of the Cross' after Eliseg’s Pillar, situated a little to north. Founded 12 January 1201 by Madoc ap Gruffydd Maelor, ruler of Welsh principality of Powys, with 13 Cistercian monks & several lay-brothers from Strata Marcella, nr Welshpool. He was the Great Grandfather of Owain Glyndwr in whose uprising the abbey was destroyed by fire. Dissolved 1538. A modern pilgrimage from Vale Crucis to Llangollen church echoes the St Garmon pilgrimages. In Elizabethan times the east range was converted to a dwelling-house and in later times used as a farmhouse.

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Location: Vale Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
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