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Buckfast Abbey is the home of a Roman Catholic Community of Benedictine monks in Devon, England. The first monastery was founded in 1018, but was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1539. It was refounded in 1882. The Abbey Church was rebuilt by the monks themselves. Buckfast now welcomes almost half a million visitors each year.
Badgers Holt, at Dartmeet, of world-famed beauty, was once an old fishing lodge belonging to the Manor of Spitchwick, mentioned in the Domesday Book, and the Clapper Bridge or Old Packhorse Bridge is some 2000 years old.
The Eden Project is an
International Visitor Destination, a global garden for the 21st century
and beyond, a dramatic setting in which to tell the fascinating story
of people’s dependence on plants and a gateway to a sustainable future.
In this giant crater in Cornwall we bring the stories of our world to
life.
