Newstead Abbey Historic House and Gardens
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Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire is best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron, and displays many personal items that belonged to the great Romantic poet.
Built on the site of a 12th-century Augustinian priory, the Abbey retains its medieval character, and its striking façade incorporates the West Front of the old priory church. Byron sold Newstead in 1817, and its interior was later remodelled in the Gothic Revival style.
Today, the Abbey is something of a museum of its own history, with furniture, medieval manuscripts, paintings, photographs, letters ? the possessions of Newstead's past occupants.
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