Information board for Sawley Abbey, a ruined monastery of Cistercian monks in Sawley village , Lancashire . It was historically situated within the West Riding of Yorkshire boundary. The abbey was created as a daughter house of Newminster Abbey. It existed from 1147 to the dissolutrion in 1536 & was founded by William de Percy & Newminster Abbey monks. The abbey was not a rich one and by the late 1300's only 2 lay monks lived abbot and 2 monks were executed by King Henry VIII for their part in the protest and uprising arising from plans for the dissolution (Pilgrimage of Grace)

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