Literary Associations
The Abbey was the original site on which 'Gracedieu', the setting for the Abbey Series of books by Elsie J. Oxenham, was based. Many of its features described by Oxenham, who visited Cleeve in the early years of the Twentieth Century, can be identified at the site today, although literary licence allowed her to add features from elsewhere or from her imagination.
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