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Alnwick Abbey was founded as a Premonstratensian monastery in 1147 by Eustace FitzJohn near Alnwick, England, as a daughter house of Newsham Abbey in Lincolnshire. The Norbertines, also known as the Premonstratensians (OPraem and in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons (from the colour of Alnwick ( IPA /ˈænɪk/ is a small Market town in north Northumberland, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. It was dissolved in 1535, refounded in 1536 and finally suppressed in 1539. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the formal process between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded It was granted to the Sadler and Winnington families.

Alnwick Abbey site is located just within Hulne Park, on the bank of the River Aln. Hulne Park is the only remaining of the three parks that once surrounded Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, providing wood and meat for the table of the Percy family The River Aln runs through the Alnwick district of the county of Northumberland in England discharging into the North Sea on the east coast of England The only visible remnant is the impressive 14th century gatehouse.

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