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Shaftesbury Abbey
Shaftesbury Abbey
was an
abbey
that housed
nuns
in
Shaftesbury
,
Dorset
. Founded in 888, the abbey was the wealthiest
Benedictine
nunnery
in England, a major pilgrimage site, and the town's central focus. The abbey was
dissolved
in 1539 during the
English Reformation
by the order of
Thomas Cromwell
, minister to King
Henry VIII
. At the time it was the second wealthiest nunnery in England, behind only
Sion Abbey
.
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