Cerne Abbas
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Cerne Abbas is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Dorset Council administrative area in the Cerne Valley in the Dorset Downs. The village lies just east of the A3
The village centre
Abbey Farm House
The pitchmarket doorway
Parish church of St Mary
Cerne Abbey
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Cerne Abbey was a Benedictine monastery founded in 987 in the town now called Cerne Abbas, Dorset, by Æthelmær the Stout.
Cerne Abbas
…in the Septuagint and in the New Testament, which resulted in the English word abbot. The village of Cerne Abbas grew up around the Benedictine abbey, Cerne Abbey, which was founded there in AD 987 (Abbas is medieval Latin for "abbot", but with a long 2nd syllable). The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded cultivated…
Abbey Guest House
Abbot's Porch
Tithe barn