Egglestone Abbey12th Centuary Abbey

Egglestone Abbey near Barnard Castle, once a place of worship for the for the Premonstratensian order of the white canons, founded in the 12th century, the white canons followed a code of austerity simular to the Cistercian monks, the abbey sufferd at the hands of the Scottish invaders and the rowdy English army how were billeted there on there way to the battle of Nevilles cross, the abbey was dissolved in in 1540 by King Henry V111,