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An unexpected find in the grounds of Waverley Abbey. Are these the type of tank trap known as 'Dragon's Teeth'? They are by the River Wey at SU898472.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.2km<br/>Water lilies with yellow flowers. The pads are carpeting the River Wey beside Waverley Abbey.

©Colin Smith

Dist:0.3km<br/>Historic three-arched bridge spanning the Wey between the ruins of waverley Abbey and the Georgian mansion of Waverley Abbey House. Large patches of water lilies cover the water surface.

©Colin Smith

Dist:0.3km<br/>Bridge over the serpentine lake made with stone robbed from the Abbey ruins http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/726891

©Richard Croft

Dist:0.3km<br/>Canada geese high tailing it downstream on the River Wey beside Waverley Abbey ruins. Water lilies are in the foreground.

©Colin Smith

Dist:0.3km<br/>Ruins of the first Cistercian house founded in England founded in 1128 http://www.waverley.gov.uk/abbey/wav_abbey.htm

©Richard Croft

Dist:0.3km<br/>This is a Georgian house now used as headquarters and training centre for the Crusade for World Revival, the Christian organisation founded by Selwyn Hughes in 1965. It is also offered as a venue for other organisations to use.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.3km<br/>Georgian mansion, set in extensive grounds, on the banks of the Wey. The house was built using stones taken from Waverley Abbey on the opposite side of the river. Today the house is a conference centre.
www.waverleyabbeyhouse.org.uk

©Colin Smith

Dist:0.3km<br/>Pictorial information board at the site of the former Cistercian holding of Waverley Abbey.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/waverley-abbey/

©Colin Smith

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©David Gearing

Dist:0.3km<br/>This is more a canal than a lake, and separates the grounds of Waverley House from the field containing the ruins of Waverley Abbey. Note the three-arched stone bridge in the distance.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.3km<br/>Waverley Abbey house http://www.waverleyabbeyhouse.org.uk/waverley/conferencing/index.php?wah seen across the lake. Built by Sir John Aislabie in 1723, Florence Nightingale and Sir Walter Scott were frequent visitors in the 19th century.

©Richard Croft

Dist:0.3km<br/>The house seen from the entrance to the Abbey ruins

©Richard Croft

Dist:0.3km<br/>A duck and her brood of growing ducklings on the bank of the River Wey at Waverley Abbey.

©Colin Smith

Dist:0.3km<br/>Information board at English Heritage's Waverley Abbey, once a great Cistercian site.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/waverley-abbey/

©Colin Smith

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