Tintern Abbey
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Tintern Abbey is a ruined medieval abbey adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales
Tintern Abbey West End
Details of stonework, interior and exterior
Aerial view of Tintern Abbey
The River Wye landing by Edward Dayes, 1799
"Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" is a poem by William Wordsworth. The title, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 17
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…Wordsworth’s different reflections followed a tour on foot that he made along the river in 1798, although he does not actually mention the ruins in his "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey". Instead, he recalls an earlier visit five years before and comments on the beneficial internalisation of that memory. Later Robert Bloomfield made…
The Abbey and the upper reaches of the Wye, a painting by William Havell, 1804
A print by Thomas Hearne of the "Iron Forge at Tintern" (1795)
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon