Boxley Abbey

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A Cistercian monastery founded in 1143-46 by William Ypres, Earl of Kent, and colonized by monks from Clairvaux Abbey in France. Contained the infamous Rood of Grace, a supposedly miraculous relic which was actually a fraud. Monastery dissolved c. 1538.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxley_Abbey

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Coordinates: 51°18'1"N 0°31'29"E

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