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Let’s dig up the greenbelt, create new cities, turn our Downton Abbeys into flats and church halls into temporary dormitories, and reclaim all those empty penthouses being used as nothing more than investment vehicles.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2015

Inwardly, I'm already refusing to settle for a mere seven Downton Abbeys.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

In 1335 Whittlesea was the scene of a most unedifying conflict between the Abbeys of Ramsey and Ely.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

There were many municipal buildings, some stately castles, and a large number of impressively magnificent Abbeys and Monasteries, besides educational and charitable institutions built at this same time.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

From 1856 to 1862 he was engaged on Cassell’s Illustrated History of England, and from 1861 to 1864 he and his wife worked at the Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various