Newstead Abbey in Gedling

You're standing at Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire. Funny thing about that name: it was never actually an abbey. It was a priory, home to Augustinian canons. King Henry II founded it around 1170, as one of his penances after the murder of Thomas Becket. Have a look around. What you see is part monastery, part country house, because first monks lived here, and then one noble family for centuries.