A site I visit often and near my home is Valle Crucis Abbey
Valle Crucis Abbey was founded as a daughter-house of Strata Marcella in January 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, lord of Iâl. It was once was ranked as one of the richest Cistercian monasteries in Wales, second only to Tintern Abbey in the wye Valley
http://www.monasticwales.org/site/35
Valle Crucis Abbey has many stories attached to it
It's associated with the Holy Grail which is believed by some to have been brought there. Ghostly faces , some in golden helmets have been seen there. Many people say they have heard singing and chanting in Latiin
In the nineteenth century two preachers were walking past the abbey at first light when they heard a male voice singing a Latin religious song. They stopped to listen and did not think that it was anything supernatural at first. It was only when the singing had stopped that they went down to the ruins to introduce themselves and found that there was nobody there
The medieval fish pond is a lovely feature that has survived over the centuries . It once supplied the abbey with fish and therefore food . The water for the Abbey was supplied from the nearby Eglwyseg river
Howard Williams has a wonderful blog which covers the area around Valle crucis
http://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/valle-crucis-reused-ruins-water-and-death-in-absentia/comment-page-1/
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