
Egglestone Abbey
About 18 miles from The Inn at Brough the beautiful ruins of Egglestone Abbey lie 1 mile south of Barnard Castle, on a minor road off the B6277. The abbey of St Mary and St John the Baptist was founded between 1195 and 1198 for Premonstratensian canons by the de Moulton family, whose title passed to the Dacres by marriage in 1314. The endowment of Egglestone was so small that early in the 13th century the status of the abbey was nearly reduced to that of a priory. It remained an abbey, but poverty beset the canons throughout their history. They suffered particularly when the Scots ravaged Yorkshire in 1315 and at other times of war, receiving frequent remissions of taxes to maintain them.
Address
Egglestone Abbey
Abbey Lane
Barnard Castle
DL12