Tintern+Abbey

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 * Tintern Abbey** was a Cistercian monastery, founded on May 9, 1131 by Walter de Clare, on the bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales. Construction spanned between 1136 and 1536, but various original buildings were destroyed over time. In 1536, under the rule of King Henry VIII, the abbey was put out of commission, and all the valuables, including the roof, were removed for the King's profit. Wordsworth, the speaker in "Tintern Abbey," virst visited on a tour in 1793 (by that time it had become a prominent tourist attraction), and he actually did revisit five years later with his younger sister.