English: Shap Abbey Built in the early 13th. century as home to a community of Premonstratensian canons it was suppressed by Henry VIII and given to the Governor of Carlisle in 1540. Some of the main buildings were used as a farm but it was gradually dismantled and the stone used for other purposes.
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