Mount Saint Bernard Abbey

Working Cistercian Abbey community founded in 1835. It was the first community of its kind to be established in England after the Dissolution of the 16th Century.
currently 30 Monks.
See: mountsaintbernard.org/

See: www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series7/monastery....

See: www.whitwick.org.uk/history/abbey.htm

See: www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=38187

In the 19th Century the abbey also included the largest juvenile reformatory in the country: Whitwick Reformatory (opened 1856 and closed 1885).

See: www.leicesterchronicler.com/reformatory.htm