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Ramsey Abbey
Remains of Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse
LocationRamsey, Cambridgeshire, England
Coordinates52°26′54″N 0°06′03″W / 52.44833°N 0.10083°W / 52.44833; -0.10083
AreaHuntingdonshire
Founded969
Built10th–16th centuries
Demolished1537
Scheduled monument
Official nameRamsey Abbey (remains of)
Reference no.1006838
Ramsey Abbey is located in Cambridgeshire
Ramsey Abbey
Location of Ramsey Abbey in Cambridgeshire

Ramsey Abbey was a Benedictine abbey in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England. It was founded about AD 969 and dissolved in 1539.

The site of the abbey in Ramsey is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[1] Most of the abbey's buildings were demolished after the dissolution but surviving structures are Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings. Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse is in the care of the National Trust and the Church of St Thomas à Becket, Ramsey was one of the buildings of the abbey.

  1. ^ Historic England. "Ramsey Abbey (remains of) (1006838)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

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