The ruins of this Cistercian abbey, including much of its fine 12th-century church is located in a woodland setting beside the River Severn, not far from the Iron Bridge.
The abbey's location near the border of Wales resulted in it having a turbulent history. Welsh Princes and their followers would raid the abbey and on one occasion in 1406 raiders from Powys even kidnapped the abbot.
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