Winter sunset over Bolton Priory. The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154. The canons lived and worshipped here until 1539
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and the dissolution of the monasteries. Over the centuries the priory grew and prospered, despite 'raiding Scots, severe winters, agricultural disasters and the Black Death from to 1348 to 1350.' Eventually though an in common with many such houses the numbers of canons dwindled.
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