Alton Abbey

Beech, United Kingdom

Alton Abbey was an Anglican Benedictine monastery (founded in 1895, closed in 2024) in the village of Beech, near Alton, Hampshire, England. The abbey was not far from one of Hampshire's highest points, King's Hill (218 m). The community was founded by the Revd Charles Plomer Hopkins in 1884, as the "Society of Saint Paul", in Rangoon (Burma) and Calcutta (India) to work with destitute or distressed merchant seafarers and their chaplains. Noted for its beauty and tranquility, Alton Abbey had been described in The Times as "the best-kept secret in the Church of England". It closed in 2024.

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